How To Build A Cemetery Essay

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[All I know, that cemetery was built a long time ago, in 18th century, and it was built by the order of the Spanish friars that had brought Christianity here in Janiuay to construct a cemetery there. And if viewed, from that time up to now, you can say that that cemetery is still there but is gradually getting deteriorated. Because its structure, you can see that the post near the end of it is not connected to (the walls of the cemetery) anymore. It is scary since every day, I pass by there and look at it – to find some problems because it seems like it is not given any importance by the local government of Janiuay. So, there is none. Even the tourism does not seem to give support because they can still see it functional. Time will come that they will see the cemetery slowly falling into ruin and that’s when they’ll take an action- maybe. Because they can see that it is still okay now, but according to what I see when I pass by it every morning and every …show more content…

So, what they can do is to restore it because it needs attention from the local government with the help of the tourism. So that in later days for the upcoming generations, they will see and that they will be proud of that because you will not see anything like that cemetery in other towns. It is creative, even the metalwork from before looks good. It was already artistic during that time that cannot be achieved in today’s time. You will say, ‘Ay, they were that artistic in the past?’ That the people, the Janiuaynons, assembled the limestone from Dingle. The cemetery was constructed earlier than the Janiuay Church. They estimated the distance of the cemetery to be one kilometre away from the church. So, that was the basis that today, our church is at that location. Maybe after they established it, the construction of the church has already started. And it is unique because of its three staircases and three

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