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Brothers' Cemetery
Cemetery in Riga, Latvia / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Brothers' Cemetery or Cemetery of the Brethren (Latvian: Brāļu Kapi), also sometimes referred to in English as the Common Graves or simply as the Military Cemetery, is a military cemetery and national monument in Riga, capital of Latvia.
Brothers' Cemetery Brāļu Kapi | |
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![]() The main burial ground of the cemetery | |
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Established | 1915 |
Location | |
Country | Latvia |
Coordinates | 56°59′20″N 24°08′34″E |
Type | public |
Size | ~9 hectares |
No. of graves | >2800 |
Find a Grave | Brothers' Cemetery Brāļu Kapi |
The cemetery is a memorial to and burial ground for thousands of Latvian soldiers who were killed between 1915 and 1920 in World War I and the Latvian War of Independence.
The landscape was designed by gardener Andrejs Zeidaks, who started to work on it already during the war. The memorial was built between 1924 and 1936, to designs by the sculptor Kārlis Zāle, many of whose sculptures feature prominently, the architects Pēteris Feders, Aleksandrs Birzenieks, P. Kundziņš, the sculptors J. Cirulis and F. Valdmanis and others.