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The current parish cemetery of Kražiai is located on the outskirts of the town's old district. The cemetery consists of two parts – the old (enclosed by a masonry-stone wall) and the new (enclosed by a metal fence).
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The current parish cemetery of Kražiai is located on the outskirts of the town's old district. The cemetery consists of two parts – the old (enclosed by a masonry-stone wall) and the new (enclosed by a metal fence).
In the middle of the old cemetery, at the highest point, stands a stone and masonry chapel. The parish priest V. Butavičius built a brick chapel with crypts in the Kražiai parish cemetery in 1857, inspected by Bishop M. Valančius. The chapel is rectangular in plan, with a semicircular
apse, and the walls contain small broken stones between large stones. It was the mausoleum of the noble families Šiukšta and Pšeciševskis.
From the 1940s to the 1980s, the chapel was not maintained, and the roof, ceilings, and wooden floors deteriorated, while the coffins of the nobles were desecrated and plundered. Only the white marble plaques with the names of the buried remained. In 1991, the chapel was renovated with donated funds from K. Požėla, P. Cvirka, and Kražiai collective farms.
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