Cemetery

Today we went to the Cementerio El Salvador in Rosario. It is a cemetery for the rich, Catholic people.
I was very shocked that the tombs were that huge and grand. It was a little scary going underground to see the tombs. You can tell by the tombs that for Catholic people tombs are very important.


This is the entrance to the cemetery.
 

This shows the wall of the cemetery on the inside. The wall is full of graves.

 The inside of the cemetery.

 This is the tomb of the Ovidios Family.

 The huge tombs are for a family.

These are graves in the basement (underground) of the cemetery wall.

 

Argentina Religion Facts:

• Approximately 90% of the people in Argentina are Catholic.
• Less than 20% of the people who are Catholic, actually attend church regularly
• In 1994 when the constitution of Argentina was changed, the church lost a lot of its power in the government. One of the changes included that the president did not need to be Roman Catholic.
• Argentina has many other religions. For example Jewish, Muslim, Orthodox, Protestant etc.
• Buenos Aires has the eighth largest Jewish population in the world.

 Sources:
com/en/argentina/argentina_religion.php
http://www.argentinaautentica.com/religion.php