The Cemetery of Our Saviour 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.
Our Saviour's Orthodox Church, formerly the chapel
The grave of Edvard Munch
The grave of Henrik Ibsen
Southern section
Old Aker Church is a medieval era church located in Oslo, Norway. An active parish, the church is the oldest existing building in Oslo. The church is surrounded by Old Aker Cemetery.
South side of the church
Telthusbakken with Gamle Aker kirke Edvard Munch (1880)
Gamle Aker kirke tower
Gamle Aker kirke pulpit