Riga’s Forest Cemetery is a large wooded burial landscape divided into first and second sections, where paths and memorials hold the stories of many generations of the city.
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Pines and paths give Riga’s Forest Cemetery its name. Across its broad grounds, family plots and memorial sculptures record lives from different periods of the city’s history. The first and second Forest Cemeteries form parts of a larger burial landscape; the nearby Riga Brethren Cemetery is a separate military memorial. Visitors should treat the grounds as a place of mourning and leave space for families tending graves.
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- Forest Cemetery opened in 1913 as Riga sought new burial space.
- Landscape architect Georg Friedrich Kuphaldt devised its original park-like plan.
- It is divided into I and II Forest Cemetery, with separate addresses.
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