Editing Dushanbe (section)

=== Cemeteries ===
[[File:Hammond Slides Dushanbe 08.jpg|thumb|Mausoleum of Sadriddin Ayni]]

There are 5 main and 14 unrecognized cemeteries in Dushanbe.<ref name="asiaplustj-2020b">{{Cite web|title=Сколько захоронено в Душанбе людей и как содержатся столичные кладбища? {{!}} Новости Таджикистана ASIA-Plus|url=https://asiaplustj.info/ru/news/tajikistan/society/20191013/skolko-zahoroneno-v-dushanbe-lyudei-i-kak-soderzhatsya-stolichnie-kladbitsha|access-date=2020-09-19|website=asiaplustj.info}}</ref> One of the 5 mains ones is Mekhrobod, founded in 2013, that consists of 74 acres of primarily tombstones. For a period of 9 months in 2019, 78 people were buried there. Luchob cemetery, also one of the five, uses commemorative [[stele]]s to remember the dead and houses more well-known figures. As of October 2019, 54 people were buried there such as [[Jabbor Rasulov]], [[Bobojon Ghafurov]], [[Muhammad Osimi]], [[Mirzo Tursunzoda|Mirzo Tursunzade]], [[Loiq Sher-Ali|Loik Sherali]], [[Muhammadjon Shakuri]], [[Malika Sobirova|Malika Sabirova]], [[Tuhfa Fozilova|Tufa Fozylova]], and [[Muqadamma Ashrafi|Mukaddima Ashrafi]]. It was founded in 1977 and uses the smallest amount of land of the five.<ref name="asiaplustj-2020b" /> In 2017, the government secretly moved many national figures from Aini park to Luchob cemetery, sparking outrage.<ref>{{Cite news|title='A Park Isn't A Graveyard': Tajikistan Secretly Reburies Remains Of The Elite|url=https://www.rferl.org/a/tajikistan-park-graveyard-remains-reburied/28808001.html|access-date=2020-09-19|newspaper=Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty|date=21 October 2017 }}</ref>

Sari Osiyo, founded in 1933, is another one of the five cemeteries. It is one of the oldest in the city and has graves from the late 19th century. For the 9-month period in 2019, 225 were buried here. The Christian cemetery is another one of the five, the least visited although frequented by the [[Russian 201st Military Base|201st Russian division]]. It uses 84.3 hectares of land and saw 197 new graves over the same nine-month period. Shokhmansur is the last of the five main cemeteries and saw 65 burials over the 9-month period.<ref name="asiaplustj-2020b" /> The Jewish cemetery of the city, one of the fourteen unofficial ones, is looked after by the Congress of [[Bukharan Jews|Bukharian Jews]].<ref>{{Cite web|date=2018-11-13|title=The history of the last synagogue in Tajikistan|url=https://cabar.asia/en/the-history-of-the-last-synagogue-in-tajikistan/|access-date=2020-09-19|website=CABAR.asia}}</ref>