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Jerusalem cemetery goes deep underground with tunnel burials

A beehive-like structure built deep underground in Jerusalem is providing an innovative solution for the holy city's chronic shortage of burial space for the dead.

 

Tunnels stretching more than a kilometer (half mile) in length beneath Jerusalem's main cemetery have been carefully excavated over the past two years to make room for some 22,000 graves—enough space to meet the city's needs for the next decade.

 

A 50-meter (55-yard) elevator shaft will connect the world above with the world below.

 

Arik Glazer, chief executive of Rolzur Tunneling, says: "We came up with this idea to provide a solution under the cemetery with burial structures, but also hidden from the eye."

 

Glazer called the planned city of the dead deep below ground both aesthetic and respectful.

 


פרסום ראשון: 11.17.17, 09:41