Cemeteries

Funerals and wakes during restrictions

Attending a funeral

Funerals are allowed with up to 150 people whether held indoors or outdoors. This limit doesn’t include babies under 12 months of age, or the people required to conduct the funeral.

A funeral held in a private residence will be limited to the members of the household and up to 15 visitors plus the people required to conduct the ceremony.

You must keep physical distance from other mourners at the funeral, and you should never attend a funeral if unwell.

Visiting a cemetery other than funeral attendance

You can visit a cemetery with the members of your household, your partner or in a group of up to 50 people at any one time.

Holding a wake

You can hold a gathering after a funeral, however the following limits apply.

  • A wake held outdoors in a public place can have up to 50 people outdoors.
  • A wake held at a restaurant or café, or a community venue, can have up to 150 people subject to the venue’s permitted capacity.
  • If you hold a wake at your home then the members of your household and up to 15 visitors can attend.

Find out about our local operational and historic cemeteries, how to organise interment of ashes or memorials, or find the the final resting place of a family member or person of interest.

Warringal Cemetery

Warringal Cemetery in Heidelberg is the main operational cemetery in the area, with limited burials and many cremated remains positions available for sale.

Greensborough Cemetery

Greensborough Cemetery is a small and historic cemetery. Burials are allowed only in graves purchased prior to 1978.

Organise a burial or memorial

If you are looking for the final resting place for a family member, there are limited options in our local cemeteries. Find out about burials, cremated remains and memorials.

Inter ashes in a local cemetery

There are three types of interment of cremated remains at Warringal Cemetery. Find out about purchasing positions, interring cremated remains and plaque information.

Hawdon Street Cemetery (‘Old Heidelberg Cemetery’)

This Heidelberg cemetery no longer operates as a cemetery. Banyule City Council manages it as a memorial park.

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