Information on the Holy Trinity Columbarium at Holy Rood Cemetery
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Columbarium Niche Pricing Donations and Legacy Gifts All are welcome. You do not need to be a Catholic We welcome donations in any amount to support to purchase entombment rights in a niche at Holy the Holy Rood Cemetery restoration project. Holy Trinity Trinity Columbarium. Purchasers can select a Legacy Gifts of $25,000 or more qualify for one preferred niche location based on availability at free niche. the time of purchase. Columbarium Each Wall or Crypt niche comes with two bronze Ornamental Fence $ 150,000 urns. The urns will fit in the niche, one in front of A Sacred Place of Final Repose the other. Each urn provided is: 5.5” width x 5.5” Interior Crypt Restoration in a Restored Cemetery depth x 7” height. If you prefer to use other urns, with Liturgical Podiums $ 100,000 the interior dimensions of the niches are: Trinity Hill Landscaping $ 50,000 • Wall niche: 11.5” width x 11.75” depth x 10.5” height. Benches $ 25,000 • Crypt niche: 7.5” width x 11.75” depth x Trees $ 2,500 6.5” height. Crypt Niches Wall Niches $ 12,000 $ 9,000 $ 9,000* $ 7,750* *Reduced price for parishioners who have made a pledge to the parish in the calendar year prior to the purchase. Holy Trinity Catholic Church 3513 N Street NW 2126 Wisconsin Avenue NW Washington, DC 20007 Washington, DC www.holytrinitycolumbarium.org Holy Trinity Catholic Church has recently Restoring Holy Rood restored and relandscaped Holy Rood Cemetery, a sacred space on a hilltop overlooking Georgetown. In 2018, Holy Trinity Church and Georgetown University agreed on a plan to restore Holy Rood As part of this project, Holy Trinity has built a Cemetery, and to grant Holy Trinity the right 645-niche columbarium there for parishioners to build a 645-niche columbarium there. The and others. project was completed in the spring of 2020. Holy Trinity has already sold entombment rights in a substantial number of niches in the new columbarium. It is using a portion of the proceeds of columbarium niche sales to fund a Perpetual Care Endowment for Holy Rood Cemetery. Georgetown University and Holy Trinity have established a Joint Management Committee to ensure the good upkeep of the restored cemetery. A new curved granite columbarium Wall, containing 546 niches, has been built in the The Columbarium historic carriage-way opposite the Crypt. Holy Trinity Columbarium consists of two unique structures. Purchasing a Niche An existing brownstone hillside Crypt has been You may purchase entombment rights in a niche in restored and now contains 99 columbarium An Historic Cemetery the Holy Trinity Columbarium via our website at niches. www.holytrinitycolumbarium.org, or by contacting The Jesuits who established Georgetown the Holy Trinity Columbarium Administrator at University founded Holy Trinity Church in 1794. (202) 903-2836. Holy Trinity established Holy Rood, its 6.5-acre parish cemetery, in 1832. The University still Purchasers may sell niches back to Holy Trinity owns the cemetery. at the purchase price, less a service charge, should future plans change. There are more than 7,000 burials of parishioners and others at Holy Rood. The last available plot For further information, please contact the there was sold in 1915, and Holy Rood was closed Holy Trinity Columbarium Administrator at for burials in the 1990s. [email protected]..