Jakub Hrubý 2025

The Prague Institute of Planning and Development (IPR Prague), Czech Republic

Prague’s cemeteries – from the present to the year 2050

Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic, evaluates the sufficiency of public amenities in their current state and in comparison with demographic projections to 2050. An update to the Prague Population and Public Amenities Forecast 2023-2050 was released in 2024, and an update for 2024-2050 is now being worked on. This project includes an assessment of the sufficiency of the funeral infrastructure to meet the current and future needs of the city. This relates in particular to the sufficiency of grave space capacity in cemeteries, the walkability and commutability of cemeteries in different parts of the city, the specific requirements of religious groups and new burial methods. For the purposes of this project, a sociological survey was also prepared with more than 1000 respondents, which is interested in the preferred way of disposing of the body of the inhabitants of Prague, interest in new burial methods or the relationship to local cemeteries in the city and the way they are used by the inhabitants. My contribution will mainly focus on the results of the project and the sociological survey, while other tools for the care of cemeteries in Prague will also be mentioned in passing.

Events

The Cemetery Research Group runs two events a year: in May and in November. Follow the links and send in an abstract