Mirogoj Cemetery

About

The Mirogoj City Cemetery (pronounced [mîrɔɡɔːj], Croatian: Gradsko groblje Mirogoj), also known as Mirogoj Cemetery (Croatian: Groblje Mirogoj), is a cemetery park that is considered to be among the more noteworthy landmarks in the city of Zagreb. The cemetery inters members of all religious groups: Catholic, Orthodox, Muslim, Jewish, Protestant, Latter Day Saints; irreligious graves can all be found. In the arcades are the last resting places of many famous Croats. Mirogoj has 60,000 graves and it’s a resting place of 322,000 people.

The Mirogoj Cemetery was built on a plot of land owned by the linguist Ljudevit Gaj, purchased by the city in 1872, after his death. Architect Hermann Bollé designed the main building. The new cemetery was inaugurated on 6 November 1876.

The construction of the arcades, the cupolas, and the church in the entryway was begun in 1879. Due to lack of funding, work was finished only in 1929.

Unlike the older cemeteries in Zagreb, which were church-owned, Mirogoj was owned by the city, and accepted burials from all religious backgrounds.

On 22 March 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, Zagreb was hit by a 5.5 magnitude earthquake that caused significant damage across the city, including to the famous arcades of the Mirogoj cemetery.

See also: Category:Burials at Mirogoj Cemetery

- Zlatko Baloković (1895–1965), violinist

- Milan Bandić (1955–2021), longest-serving mayor of Zagreb

- Miroslav Blažević (1935–2023), football player and later manager

- Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić (1874–1938), writer

- Ferdinand Budicki (1871–1951), automotive and air travel pioneer of Zagreb, introduced cars to the city

- Krešimir Ćosić (1948–1995), basketball player and coach, member of both the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame and FIBA Hall of Fame

- Arsen Dedić (1938–2015), singer-songwriter and composer

- Dimitrija Demeter (1811–1872), Greek–Croatian who played a major role in the movement for the national awakening of the Croatian nation

- Filip Deutsch (1828–1919), nobleman and industrialist

- Julio Deutsch (1859–1922), architect and co-owner of the architecture studio Hönigsberg & Deutsch

- Janko Drašković (1770–1856), nobleman, national reformer, politician and poet

- Rajko Dujmić, songwriter and composer (1954–2020)

- Aleksandar Ehrmann (1879–1965), industrialist, philanthropist and diplomat

- Ljudevit Gaj (1809–1872), co-founder of the Illyrian movement