Cemetery of Our Saviour
The Cemetery of Our Saviour is a cemetery in Oslo, Norway, located north of Hammersborg in Gamle Aker district. It is located adjacent to the older Old Aker Cemetery and was created in 1808 as a result of the great famine and cholera epidemic of the Napoleonic Wars.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Cemetery
- Description: cemetery in Oslo, Norway
- Also known as: “Var Frelsers gravlund” and “Vår Frelsers gravlund”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include St. Olav’s Cathedral and Bislett Stadium.
St. Olav’s Cathedral
Church
Photo: AsgeirM, CC BY-SA 3.0.
St. Olav's Cathedral is the cathedral of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Oslo and the parish church of St. Olav's parish in Oslo, Norway. The cathedral has church services and masses in Norwegian and several other languages, including English and Polish. St. Olav’s Cathedral is situated 320 metres south of Cemetery of Our Saviour.
Bislett Stadium
Stadium
Photo: Kjetil r, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Bislett Stadium is a sports stadium in Oslo, Norway. Bislett is Norway's most well known sports arena internationally, with 15 speed skating world records and more than 50 track and field world records having been set here. Bislett Stadium is situated 720 metres northwest of Cemetery of Our Saviour.
Oslo Cathedral School
School
Photo: Helge Høifødt, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Schola Osloensis, known in Norwegian as Oslo Katedralskole and more commonly as "Katta", is a selective upper secondary school located in Oslo, Norway. Oslo Cathedral School is situated 160 metres west of Cemetery of Our Saviour.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Gamle Aker and Fredensborg.
Inner North
Photo: Kjetil r, CC BY-SA 2.5.
Inner North is the sector of Oslo between Ring 1 and Ring 3 and between Highway 168 in the west and Akerselva in the East. This is an area of fine parks, the University campus and the Aker river with Oslo's industrial past as well as landmark buildings, many hotels and restaurants within walking from Karl Johan street.
Cemetery of Our Saviour
- Categories: cultural property and burial
- Location: Oslo Municipality, Oslo, Oslo region, East Norway, Alvdal, Innlandet, Norway, Nordic countries, Europe
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Latitude
59.92131° or 59° 55′ 17″ northLongitude
10.74394° or 10° 44′ 38″ eastElevation
49 metres (161 feet)Open location code
9FFGWPCV+GHOpenStreetMap ID
way 32807655OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=cemetery
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Welsh—“Cemetery of Our Saviour” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Քրիստոս Փրկչի տաճարի գերեզմանատուն”
- Azerbaijani: “Xilaskar Məsih qəbiristanlığı”
- Belarusian: “Спаскія могілкі”
- Catalan: “Cementiri del Nostre Salvador”
- Czech: “hřbitov Našeho Vykupitele”
- Czech: “hřbitov Vår Frelsers”
- Czech: “Vår Frelsers gravlund”
- Danish: “Vår Frelsers gravlund”
- Dutch: “Vår Frelsers gravlund”
- Esperanto: “Tombejo Nia Savanto en Oslo”
- Esperanto: “Vår Frelsers gravlund en Oslo”
- Esperanto: “Vår Frelsers gravlund”
- Finnish: “Vår Frelsers gravlund”
- French: “cimetière de Notre-Sauveur”
- French: “Cimetière de Notre-Sauveur”
- French: “Vår Frelsers gravlund”
- German: “Friedhofshain Unser Heiland”
- German: “Vår Frelsers Gravlund”
- Hungarian: “Vår Frelsers gravlund”
- Hungarian: “Vår Frelsers-temető”
- Italian: “Vår Frelsers gravlund”
- Japanese: “オスロ”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Vår Frelsers gravlund”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Vår Frelsers gravlund”
- Norwegian: “Vår Frelsers gravlund”
- Polish: “Cmentarz Chrystusa Zbawiciela w Oslo”
- Polish: “Cmentarz Zbawiciela w Oslo”
- Portuguese: “Cemitério de Nosso Salvador”
- Portuguese: “Cemitério Vår Frelsers”
- Russian: “Спасское кладбище”
- Slovenian: “Vår Frelsers Gravlund”
- Spanish: “Cementerio de Nuestro Salvador de Oslo”
- Swedish: “Vår Frelsers gravlund”
- Swedish: “Vår Frelsers kyrkogård”
- Tagalog: “Vår Frelsers gravlund”
- Tatar: “Коткаручы зираты”
- Ukrainian: “Спаський цвинтар (Осло)”
- Ukrainian: “Спаський цвинтар”
- Vietnamese: “Vår Frelsers gravlund”
- Welsh: “Mynwent ein Gwaredwr”
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