Melbourne, Fawkner Cemetery

For over 100 years Fawkner Memorial Park has been serving the people of Victoria. The cemetery opened in 1906, with the first burial taking place on 10 December 1906, and is arguably Australia's largest cemetery.

Fawkner Memorial Park has a history of innovation and leadership in the Victorian cemetery industry, introducing Victoria's first modern crematorium in the 1920s and more recently introducing grand public mausoleums into Australia and ornate private mausoleums into Victoria.

Services and facilities available at Fawkner Memorial Park include burial, cremation, mausolea, memorials, funeral venues and function facilities.

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Fawkner Cemetery

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Fawkner Cemetery opened in 1906 to cope with the city’s expanding North West.  It has an onsite crematorium, three nondenominational chapels and a 3000 crypt mausoleum.  It also offers a grief counselling service. 

In March 2010, Fawkner Cemetery was merged with a number of other metropolitan cemeteries in the North East and North West of Melbourne and is now operated by the Greater Metropolitan Cemeteries Trust.

The cemetery offers cremation services with traditional wall niches, tree memorials, rose memorials, or an urn placed in the Columbarium.  Alternatively the cremated remains may be included within an existing grave and a separate plaque erected or the original headstone changed.

Fawkner Cemetery is the final resting place of John Batman, the founder of the City of Melbourne.

The cemetery is accessible by rail, with Fawkner railway station located close by.

MAIN ENTRANCE

1187 Sydney Road Fawkner Victoria 3060
Melway Reference (Edition 35) Map 17 F4 and Detail Map 595
Visiting Hours are 7:00am to 5:30pm every day of the year and to 7.30pm during daylight savings.

POSTAL ADDRESS

PO Box 42, Fawkner, Victoria 3060
Phone: (03) 9355 3100
Facsimile: (03) 9355 3111
E-mail: [email protected]
Web: www.gmct.com.au

FLOWER, REFRESHMENTS & FUNCTIONS

The Tea Room

http://www.gmct.com.au/our-services/functions.aspx

Phone: (03) 9355 3118

 

OFFICE HOURS

Monday to Friday: 8:30am to 5:00pm.
Saturday:  9:00am to 4:00pm
Sunday and Public Holidays: Closed.