The Bare Cemetery is a cemetery complex in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina opened in 1965, with the first funeral and interment occurring on 3 January 1966.

The central part of the cemetery is a spacious plateau with a staircase and a porch that connects the Catholic, Orthodox, Muslim, Jewish and atheist chapels, designed by Smiljan Klaić, and the frescoes in the porch were painted by Rizah Štetić.

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Burials

Alija Behmen (1940–2018), politician and former Mayor of Sarajevo

Hasan Brkić (1913–1965), politician and partisan

Goran Čengić (1946–1992), handball player

Mirza Delibašić (1954–2001), basketball player

Jovan Divjak (1937–2021), Bosnian army general

Srđan Dizdarević (1952–2016), journalist, diplomat, and activist

Ines Fančović (1925–2011), actress

Muhamed Filipović (1929–2020), writer, essayist, theorist and philosopher

Anur Hadžiomerspahić (1971–2017), artist and graphic designer

Slobodan Kovačević (1946–2004), rock guitarist

Žan Marolt (1964–2009), actor

Božidar Matić (1937–2016), politician and former Chairman of the Council of Ministers Kemal Monteno (1948–2015), singer-songwriter Ivica Osim (1941–2022), footballer and football coach Davorin Popović (1946–2001), singer-songwriter Vaso Radić (1923–2011), politician and former Mayor of Sarajevo Milan Ribar (1930–1996), footballer and football coach Dražen Ričl (1962–1986), rock musician Beba Selimović (1936–2020), folk and sevdalinka singer Mirsad Tuka (1965–2023), actor Emina Zečaj (1929–2020), sevdalinka singer

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References

External links

1965 establishments in Bosnia and Herzegovina

Cemeteries in Sarajevo

Cemeteries established in the 1960s

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