Crematorium Charity Trust / Mancini Enterprises

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Coimbatore, India
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Crematorium Charity Trust / Mancini Enterprises - Beam, Concrete, Column, Courtyard
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Text description provided by the architects. 2 large pavilions in form-finished concrete provide space for the last rites to be performed - often in attendance of large amount of mourners  - before the body is taken to the furnace area.

Crematorium Charity Trust / Mancini Enterprises - Concrete
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The next morning family members collect the ashes form the admin building and proceed into the garden where smaller pavilions shelter the required rituals.

Crematorium Charity Trust / Mancini Enterprises - Beam, Column
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The design of the crematorium located in a dense part of the city is concerned with providing a humble but dignified environment evoking traditional landscape setting of the river banks where cremations used to be performed before the growth of the city made these impossible. ….

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Address:Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India

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Cite: "Crematorium Charity Trust / Mancini Enterprises" 17 Jan 2014. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/467849/crematorium-charity-trust-mancini-enterprises> ISSN 0719-8884

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