Editing Cremation (section)

===Western spread===
Some of the various Protestant churches came to accept cremation. In Anglican and Nordic Protestant countries, cremation gained acceptance (though it did not yet become the norm) first by the upper classes and cultural circles, and then by the rest of the population.<ref name="eoc-arch"/> In 1905, [[Westminster Abbey]] interred ashes for the first time; by 1911 the Abbey was expressing a preference for interring ashes.<ref name=CremSoc>{{cite web|url=http://www.srgw.demon.co.uk/CremSoc/History/HistSocy.html|title=Woking Crematorium|work=Internet|publisher=The Cremation Society of Great Britain|access-date=28 November 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100803051500/http://www.srgw.demon.co.uk/CremSoc/History/HistSocy.html|archive-date=3 August 2010|url-status=dead}}</ref> The 1908 [[Catholic Encyclopedia]] was critical of the development, referring to them as a "sinister movement" and associating them with [[Freemasonry]], although it said that "there is nothing directly opposed to any dogma of the Church in the practice of cremation."<ref>{{cite encyclopedia| encyclopedia = Catholic Encyclopedia| title = Cremation| publisher = The Encyclopedia Press| url = http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04481c.htm| quote = In conclusion, it must be remembered that there is nothing directly opposed to any dogma of the Church in the practice of cremation, and that, if ever the leaders of this sinister movement so far control the governments of the world as to make this custom universal, it would not be a lapse in the faith confided to her were she obliged to conform.}}</ref>

In the U.S. only about one crematory per year was built in the late 19th century. As embalming became more widely accepted and used, crematories lost their sanitary edge. Not to be left behind, crematories had an idea of making cremation beautiful. They started building crematories with stained-glass windows and marble floors with frescoed walls.

Australia also started to establish modern cremation movements and societies. Australians had their first purpose-built modern crematorium and chapel in the [[West Terrace Cemetery]] in the [[South Australia]]n capital of [[Adelaide]] in 1901. This small building, resembling the buildings at [[Woking]], remained largely unchanged from its 19th-century style and was in full operation until the late 1950s. The oldest operating crematorium in Australia is at [[Rookwood Cemetery]], in [[Sydney]]. It opened in 1925.

In the Netherlands, the foundation of the Association for Optional Cremation<ref>Dutch, ''Vereniging voor Facultatieve Lijkverbranding''</ref> in 1874 ushered in a long debate about the merits and demerits of cremation. Laws against cremation were challenged and invalidated in 1915 (two years after the construction of the first crematorium in the Netherlands), though cremation did not become legally recognised until 1955.<ref>{{cite book| last = Groenendijk| first = Paul|author2=Vollaard, Piet| title = Architectuurgids Nederland| year = 2006| publisher = 010 Publishers| isbn = 90-6450-573-X| pages = 213 }}</ref>