Peyia’s expat cemetery full to bursting

[memory man]

While long-awaited crematorium plans still pending

Concerns have been raised by long term residents of Peyia about the state of the municipality’s “foreign” cemetery. Residents contacted the Cyprus Mail this week seeking answers about the site’s overpopulation and challenging access to graves.

“My late wife is buried at the far end of the graveyard having passed away in 2012,” said one resident, originally from the UK who now lives in a nearby village.

“We chose to bury my wife there, as my in-laws had been living in Cyprus for years and were always going to be buried in Peyia,” he said.

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[LouiseCastricum]

I wish they would stop calling the graveyard for non-orthodox residents the British cemetery. There is no British cemetery in Peyia.

[kansas]

Isn't there a British cemetery in the Kolossi/Erimi area?

[josef k]

Yes there is. Lots of space there.

[staffie]

Yes there is. Lots of space there.

If you actually mean the British Cementery at Kolossi, a friend of our was buried there 12 years ago, is now almost full, the British cem is opposite the cyp cem, home long since you been there.

[WHL]

My opinion, it is a great shame that even after death we can't even be buried without segregation playing a part.

[josef k]

Yes there is. Lots of space there.

If you actually mean the British Cementery at Kolossi, a friend of our was buried there 12 years ago, is now almost full, the British cem is opposite the cyp cem, home long since you been there.

I was there around a year ago. They were opening up a new field next to the existing cemetery.

[staffie]

that's good news then, it's a nice cemetery there.