Jerusalem Cemetery

Jerusalem Hill is a significant place, where the Church of the Entrance of the Lord into Jerusalem was built (first wooden - 1795, then stone - 1835), and later in 1772 opened a cemetery, which became known as Jerusalem Cemetery. Many famous merchants of XVII-XIX centuries, political exiles, Polish insurgents are buried there. Also on the territory of the cemetery there were Lutheran, Jewish and Catholic cemeteries. Although the cemetery was officially closed in the 1890s, burials were carried out until the 20th century. In the 1920s, The Red Army soldiers who fell for the liberation of Irkutsk from the Kolchakovs were buried in the cemetery. By 1957, the cemetery was vandalized, and the Central Park of Culture and Recreation was opened in this place. However, in 2019-2022, the territory was reconstructed and some tombstones were restored.