Funeral home

A funeral home is a definite for funeral ceremonies buildings, often in a cemetery. If it is a church cemetery, one also speaks of a cemetery chapel.

Function

The funeral halls are today mostly for storage of the dead, either in refrigerated chambers or in coolers. In the building there is often a storage room for equipment that are required for burial, such as the trucks for transportation of the coffin, the retraction mechanism etc. mourning halls have been built in the last decades of municipal side on almost all cemeteries because the Laying out the dead was at home no longer allowed. But private companies are in the construction of mourning halls, open to all denominations and are not tied to temporal conditions of the cemetery operation involved. Such devices are known in advertising often house of farewell. Here also the different types, mourning ceremonies of different religions invoice can be worn.

Some mourning halls are provided with a clock tower.

Provisions

The use of the mourning hall is regulated by the municipal cemetery statutes.