Tasiilaq Cemetery

At the edge of Tasiilaq, beside the route into Flower Valley, rows of simple white wooden crosses extend across the low, rocky ground. Many graves are decorated with wreaths, lanterns, and brightly colored artificial flowers.

The crosses reflect Greenland’s predominantly Evangelical Lutheran burial tradition. A Christian mission station was established in the Ammassalik region in 1894, and the area later became part of the Church of Greenland. Photographed in 2015, the cemetery documents a place of remembrance where Christian grave markers are combined with personal memorial decorations in the East Greenland landscape.