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Mozambique: Maputo Municipality to transform cemetery into a cultural garden – report
11:59 CAT | 11 Nov 2025
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With the aim of honouring the dead, the São Francisco Xavier Cemetery, located in the old “Ronil” area, is set to be transformed into a garden dedicated to preserving national cultural values, according to a Jornal Domingo report.
Actions are being finalised to rehabilitate a space that, besides suffering severe degradation, has been abandoned. A project has been designed to install training rooms [salas de formação][and venues for hosting public events [ espaços para a promoção de eventos públicos] there.
The restoration project was designed by renowned Mozambican painter Elias Abdula Naguib, who intends to transform this holy place into an urban focal point [numa centralidade urbana].
As Naguib explained, the plan includes building an ossuary within the grounds where the mortal remains of those buried there will be placed.
The project also foresees the creation of a gallery of the immortals, a permanent cultural space to honour Mozambican artists who have passed away, such as Fany Fumo, Malangatana Nguenya, and José Craveirinha.
READ: Century-old cemetery in central Maputo to make way for Memorial to Mozambican Culture – Watch
Source: Domingo
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