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The fifth old cemetery of the Tatars of the Raižiai village, called Beliavshchizna

Burial places

Stone, concrete, granite monuments of various shapes with carved characters in Arabic, Russian and Lithuanian languages. There are tombstones throughout the territory, about 300 surviving monuments, according to the records of legible monuments, the earliest date is 1882, the latest - 1977.
There is a working cemetery nearby, the tombstones are modern, the distinguishing feature is the Muslim crescent with a star.
The cemetery is included in the Register of Immovable cultural values .

Raižių village, Punios sen., Alytus district.
GPS: 54.474823, 24.176146 (WGS)

Photo authors: J. Struckienė, Alytus department photo archive of the Department of Cultural Heritage.

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