Burial service

New Cemetery LLC was first established in 2006 and has since provided dignified, comprehensive burial services by bringing funeral services up to international standards and combining modern technology with Mongolia's traditional rites.

Today the company operates burial grounds at the Memorial Garden Park on the slope of Shuleg Uul in Songinokhairkhan district, 21st khoroo, west of Ulaanbaatar, and the Paradise Garden Park on the slope of Bayan Uul in Sergelen sum, 1st bag, Tuv province, east of Ulaanbaatar.

Comprehensive burial service packages

The burial service is organised according to the family's choice, ceremony format and cemetery location, with 9 package options.

• Special ceremonial service
• Headstone service in the dedicated Amgalangiin Oron sector
• Package with a large stupa
• Package with a small stupa
• Headstone package with 8-10 stone options
• Service with a spruce tree
• Eco service
• Mausoleum package
• Columbarium ash-wall package

What the packages include

The details may vary by the selected package, but the core packages include the following preparation, ceremony and landscaping services.

1. Casket selection, including locally made felt-lined lacquered caskets and imported American-standard caskets
2. Religious rites, including a lama's service for taking the plot and for the on-site rites on the ceremony day
3. Transport service for the deceased
4. Fresh-flower ceremonial wreath
5. 108 butter lamps
6. A woolen blanket matching the body-wrapping colour
7. Hand-blessing rashaal service
8. Preparatory work, including headstone engraving, installation and related tasks
9. A clean environment with permanent security
10. Ongoing greening, landscaping and maintenance

In 2014, the Memorial Garden Park added a new ceremonial hall, a mausoleum built to international standards, a central gate, a butter-lamp house, a hand-blessing building, paved roads, parking and lighting. These improvements brought in-hall ceremonial services into the package offering.

Since December 2015, the company has also offered comprehensive and more affordable burial services at city-approved cemeteries such as Narangiin Enger, Ulziitiin Maant and the honorary Altan-Ulgii cemetery. The team focuses on sharing the grief of bereaved families and providing memorial services with quality, speed and completeness.

The Amgalangiin Oron project

Designed by the Japanese landscape-architecture firm OGATA DESIGN, the Amgalangiin Oron project revives the ancient Mongolian philosophy of laying the departed to rest and expresses its symbolism through a modern green landscape. It is located at the head of the Memorial Garden Park, and each part is arranged to reflect symbols of Mongolian life.

Location

Sector B of the Memorial Garden Park, covering 5,400 square metres.

Distinctive features

1. Seven gates symbolising the seven forms of the ancient Mongolian rite of laying to rest, chosen according to the deceased's way of life, merits, deeds and household tradition.
2. A central area representing the endless, eternal cycle of time.
3. Four walls depicting the course of human life and daily life.
4. Ring-shaped sections expressing the unrepeatable nature of human life at the threshold of birth and death.
5. A total of 8,888 trees, shrubs and plants of 18 species, arranged through an environmentally friendly land plan.
6. A section symbolising the five kinds of livestock, the deceased's mount for the next journey and a blessing for the family left behind.
7. A section for offering the deceased to the fire deities, reflecting the cycle of being born of one fire and gathered back into it.
8. A wishing tree symbolising the direction of rebirth.
9. Pillow stones imbued with tradition and craftsmanship.

Burial service process

From the family's first consultation to departure from the cemetery park, the service is organised across 4 stages and 17 steps.

Consultation and registration

1. Receive guidance from the senior consultant
2. Open the astrological guidance with an Altan Sav specialist
3. Complete registration with the consultant
4. Complete deregistration at civil registration

Order and preparation

5. Receive the social insurance benefit
6. Receive service information and place the burial order with the consultant
7. Sign the contract
8. Perform the plot-taking rite

Transport and ceremony

9. Receive the deceased from the hospital morgue
10. Arrive at the cemetery park
11. Hold the farewell ceremony in the hall
12. Lay the deceased to rest in the earth, with 8-10 people participating in the rite

Respect and departure

13. Remaining family members have tea and coffee
14. The family lights memorial lamps together
15. All family members visit the burial place and pay respect
16. Cleanse hands with rashaal and complete the rite
17. Depart from the cemetery park