This is a brief overview of the options available at the Albany Diocesan Cemeteries. Our staff is always available to assist you. If you’d like to learn more about your choices, please call the cemetery office for more information.
Only you can decide what is best for your family.
Lawn Crypts provide burial space for two in a pre-installed, double depth concrete chamber. Lawn crypts allow a family to provide for the majority of their cemetery needs at an affordable package price: burial space, outer container and lawn-level bronze memorial with vase. Lawn Crypts are available at St. Agnes Cemetery, St. Mary’s Cemetery, and Most Holy Redeemer Cemetery.
Community Mausoleums offer a number of options to meet the preferences and budgets of those families that prefer above ground entombment. The price of a mausoleum crypt can compare favorably with the total cost of ground burial. St. Mary’s Cemetery, Most Holy Redeemer Cemetery, St. Agnes Cemetery, Our Lady Help of Christians Cemetery, and Sts. Cyril & Method Cemetery have community mausoleums.
Private Mausoleums from Rock of Ages (R) are now available through the cemetery office.
Family Heritage Lots can accommodate either a private family mausoleum or in-ground burial spaces. Custom landscaping and distinctive memorialization is available on these estate lots.
Cremation Urn Gardens are specially designed for families choosing cremation. These areas may have walkways, benches, a central feature, and landscaping in an intimate setting. Cremated remains may also be buried in a family lot or entombed in a niche in a community mausoleum.
Traditional Burial Options are available at all Diocesan Cemeteries in either monument lots or shrine graves. Monument lots, varying in grave numbers are sold as a unit in certain sections of the cemetery and allow one upright monument to be installed on the lot. Shrine sections generally have a central shrine or feature and each grave is memorialized by a lawn-level bronze marker.
