Westpark Cemetery
Westpark Cemetery is a large cemetery in Johannesburg, South Africa, and is the resting place of some of the country's well-known citizens. It is a non-denomination designated burial ground, and thus has Christian, Jewish, Muslim and Chinese burial areas.Photo: Hentie Joubert, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Johannesburg Botanical Garden and Emmarentia Dam.
Johannesburg Botanical Garden
Park
Photo: NJR ZA, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Johannesburg Botanical Garden is located in the suburb of Emmarentia in Johannesburg, South Africa. The gardens grew out of a large rose garden that was established in 1964 and subsequently expanded from 1969 to cover an area of around 125 hectares. Johannesburg Botanical Garden is situated 1¼ km northeast of Westpark Cemetery.
Emmarentia Dam
Reservoir
Photo: Setzor, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Emmarentia Dam is a dam in Emmarentia, Johannesburg, South Africa. There are several dams that make up Emmarentia Dam, despite its allusion to the singular, with two small dams found upstream in the Johannesburg Botanical Gardens.
Herdershof
Building
Photo: ShiningWolf, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Herdershof is a building, which is situated 1 km southwest of Westpark Cemetery.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Westdene and Franklin Roosevelt Park.
Westdene
Suburb
Westdene is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. Westdene lies between the historic suburb of Sophiatown and Melville with the Melville Koppies nature reserve to the north of the suburb.
Franklin Roosevelt Park
Suburb
Franklin Roosevelt Park is a north-western suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa, around 8 km northwest of City Hall, north of Montgomery Park and southwest of Linden.
Sophiatown
Suburb
Photo: ShiningWolf, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Sophiatown, also known as Sof'town or Kofifi, is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. Sophiatown was a poor multi-racial area and a black cultural hub that was destroyed under apartheid.
Westpark Cemetery
- Type: Cemetery
- Description: cemetery in Africa
- Category: burial
- Location: City of Johannesburg, City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality, Gauteng, South Africa, Southern Africa, Africa
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Latitude
-26.16374° or 26° 9′ 50″ southLongitude
27.98982° or 27° 59′ 23″ eastOpen location code
5G59RXPQ+GWOpenStreetMap ID
way 18906923OpenStreetMap feature
landuse=cemeteryWikidata ID
Q7989544
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Japanese—“Westpark Cemetery” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Wespark-begraafplaas”
- Chinese: “西園公墓”
- French: “cimetière de Westpark”
- French: “Cimetière de Westpark”
- German: “West Park Cemetery”
- Japanese: “ウェストパーク墓地”
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