A DANDENONG cemetery will launch a world-first glass mural in its mausoleum that other cemeteries are dying to get hold of.
At the all-inclusive price of $37,900 people can lay-away in luxury at Bunurong Memorial Park’s Il Giardino Della Pieta mausoleum and declare to be among the first 24 people in the world to have a crypt covered by a laminated glass mural of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ.
Bunurong Memorial Park CEO Vicki Pridmore told the Star the crypts would launch on 25 August with blessings from father Luciano Rochi of St Anthony’s Church in Hawthorn.
“Using the same laminated glass technology found in the Queen Victoria building in Melbourne and the walkway in the Frankston shopping centre, the crucifixion has been applied to 24 tandem crypts,” she said.
Ms Pridmore said Bunurong did not have to pay for the glass mural, instead the cost was borne by company DigiGlass which was determined to test out the application of laminated glass in a mausoleum.
“It is totally unique and can not be found anywhere else in the world,” she said.
“We have a 12-month exclusivity right to it.”
She said other cemeteries had been contacting Bunurong to find out more, only to be told they would have to wait the 12 months before a laminated glass mural could become a reality.
Ms Pridmore said the world first had not been tried because technology to produce the glass at high quality had only just arrived.
She said the glass replaced 24 of the mausoleum’s 1100 crypts which are traditionally covered in granite.
Mausoleums are popular among Greater Dandenong’s Italian community, but Ms Pridmore said the city’s multicultural diversity was represented in its mausoleum.
“It is traditionally Italian but we do have some Asian people and we have one Scottish person.”
For more information contact Bunurong Memorial Park on 9788 9488.
– Shaun Inguanzo
