Assistens Cemetery Today
The cemetery is still serving its original purpose as a burial ground but is also a popular tourist attraction, as well as the largest and most important greenspace in the inner part of the Nørrebro district.
It is divided into sections. The oldest part is Section A and features the graves of Søren Kierkegaard and the painter Christen Købke among others. Section D is dedicated to Catholic Reformed graves as well as Russian graves. Section E is the section which originally served under Church of Our Lady.
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“I am a cemetery abhorred by the moon.”
—Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867)
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—Bible: Hebrew, Deuteronomy 6:4-9.