CHISINAU, MOLDOVA: VISITORS to Europe’s largest graveyard have been snapped breaking bread with the dead. What may seem morbid is in fact a traditional practice in Chisinau, Moldova. Pictures show hordes of people who have loved-ones buried in this spooky cemetery setting up and enjoying picnics around the graves to commemorate the deceased in spectacular fashion. While some youngsters from this Orthodox Christian community can be seen nonchalantly playing on their phones. The sprawling landscape covers two-million square metres and holds three hundred thousand graves. Photographer Andrei Ghi
CHISINAU, MOLDOVA: VISITORS to Europe’s largest graveyard have been snapped breaking bread with the dead. What may seem morbid is in fact a traditional practice in Chisinau, Moldova. Pictures show hordes of people who have loved-ones buried in this spooky cemetery setting up and enjoying picnics around the graves to commemorate the deceased in spectacular fashion. While some youngsters from this Orthodox Christian community can be seen nonchalantly playing on their phones. The sprawling landscape covers two-million square metres and holds three hundred thousand graves. Photographer Andrei Ghilan (31) visited the St. Lazarus Cemetery to capture the sheer number of people participating in this community event, which takes place each year in the weeks following the Orthodox Easter on May 1st.
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