Vår Frelsers gravlund

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The Cemetery of Our Saviour (Norwegian: Vår Frelsers gravlund) is a cemetery in Oslo, Norway, located north of Hammersborg in Gamle Aker district. It is located adjacent to the older Old Aker Cemetery and was created in 1808 as a result of the great famine and cholera epidemic of the Napoleonic Wars. Its grounds were extended in 1911. The cemetery has been full and thus closed for new graves since 1952, with interment only being allowed in existing family graves. The cemetery includes five sections, including Æreslunden, Norway's main honorary burial ground, and the western, southern, eastern and northern sections. The Cemetery of Our Saviour became the preferred cemetery of bourgeois and other upper-class families. It has many grand tombstones and is the most famous cemetery in Norway.

See also: Category:Burials at the Cemetery of Our Saviour

- Johan Diederich Behrens, singing teacher and choral conductor

- Christian Birch-Reichenwald, politician

- Peder Bjørnson, priest and father of Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson

- Otto Albert Blehr, Prime Minister of Norway

- Carsten Borchgrevink, Anglo-Norwegian polar explorer and leader of the Southern Cross Expedition

- Anne Brown, soprano singer and actress

- Frederik Due, military officer and statesman

- Edward Evans, Royal Navy officer and member of the Terra Nova Expedition

- Francis Hagerup, professor, diplomat and politician

- C. J. Hambro, journalist, author and politician

- Aasta Hansteen, painter and early feminist

- Tancred Ibsen, director, screenwriter, World War I pilot

- Sophus Lie, mathematician [ citation needed ]

- Jorgen Gunnarsson Lovland, Prime Minister of Norway

- Agnes Mowinckel, actress and theatre director

- Harald Nørregaard, lawyer, art collector and Chairman of the Norwegian Bar Association

- Arnulf Øverland, poet, WWII concentration camp survivor

- Christopher Tostrup Paus, count, papal chamberlain and philanthropist