Friends of the Necropolis website, in 1831, John Strang, Chamberlain at the Merchants’ House wrote that the park appeared "admirably adapted" to create Glasgow's own version of the famous Paris Pere Lachaise cemetery.
He added that this new Necropolis (city of the dead) would provide "much wanted" and "respectful" accommodation to the higher classes and provide a lucrative source of profit for the charitable Merchant's House.
Following a competition to see who could provide the best design for the site, two brothers, one living in Glasgow and one in Edinburgh took the top prizes.
Designed to be a multi-faith burial ground, the first person to be buried was actually Jewish, with jeweller Joseph Levi laid to rest in 1832.The following year,.
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