Ossuary - Wikipedia An ossuary is a chest, box, building, well, or site made to serve as the final resting place of human skeletal remains They are frequently used where burial space is scarce
Ossuariums | Soft Urn + Niches Combined | Eickhof Columbaria On the surface, the Ossuarium looks like one of our traditional Pre-Assembled columbarium models In fact, it does have companion niches exactly like a traditional Pre-Assembled columbarium
Bone Houses: A Definitive Guide to the Worlds Ossuaries Ossuaries—chambers for storing human bones—are commonly described as places founded to house skeletal remains when cemeteries were overcrowded and burial space was scarce
The Difference Between Ossuaries and Columbaria - A Good Goodbye A columbarium (the plural is columbaria), is a structure that houses urns holding cremated remains They can vary in size from a wall or free-standing structure in a cemetery to an elaborate building with thousands of niches to permanently memorialize and house cremated remains
Ossuaries: Where Bones Are Laid To Rest - JonsBones In Jewish tradition, ossuaries were small chests that allowed for the stacking of bones for their secondary interment, after all soft material had decayed from them These differ from sarcophagi, in that a sarcophagus allows for the full body of the occupant to be laid to rest without any disassemblage