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Chinese Cemetery

Location: South Gate on Aurora Avenue, Blumentritt, Manila

Description: Founded in the mid 1850's by Lim Ong and Tan Quien Sien (Don Carlos Palanca) to accommodate the many Chinese, who were not allowed to be buried in Spanish cemeteries.

The cemetery covering 54 hectares has streets lined with mausoleums which are richly adorned with marble and wrought iron, some with strained glass windows. Some imposing mausoleum serve the dual purpose of honoring the dead and exhibiting the socio-economic status of the family.

The crematorium is opposite the temple. A nearby building houses ashes on 2nd Floors and on the 3rd Floor, the bones of those who will return to the mainland.

The poor are buried in terraces to the left of the Buddhist Temple.

How to get there?: From T.M. Kalaw St., proceed to Taft Avenue anf hail a PUJ bound for "Blumentritt / Dimasalang". Get off right in front of the SIlver Drugstore. A 15-minute walk towards the south gate on Aurora Avenue.

Take the LRT at UN Avenue station or Pedro Gil station. Get off at R. Papa station. The cemetery is right down from the station.

Travel Time: Approximately 30 minutes.

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