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Cemeteries are among the necessary equipment in the city for their role in preserving public health, in addition to being the memory of the country by virtue of its containment of the shrines of famous people of goodness, knowledge and politicians ... Cemeteries are often the first victim of urban development. In a century, the city of Tunis lost five cemeteries: the cemetery of Sidi Ahmed El-Sakka and the chain of tombs that were located near the hospital of Aziza Othmana and the market of the Sarajin to the borders of the year 1890 AD (city circle) and the cemetery of the city (circle Sidi Al-Bashir), Al-Fudan Cemetery and Al-Busaili's Cemetery (Bab Souika Circle). Due to the demographic growth, the urban renaissance, and the various aspects of economic and social development in the capital, the burial spaces of each of the two cemeteries that were still being exploited in the city of Tunis (Zalaj and Sidi Yahya) were reduced, as the Zalag cemetery lost a large area since the beginning of the century due to the creation of roads (the completion of the Carthage bridge transformer) and construction Equipment and creation of new recreational and service facilities (preparation of the water basin to protect Al Qantara, construction of the military hospital, the southern bus station, the "Lwaj" taxi station, the extension of the light metro railway - the southern line, the creation of green spaces and a memorial), and the same applies to the cemetery of Sidi Yahya, which lost a large area As a result of the creation of public facilities in the vicinity. As a result, the Zalaj and Sidi Yahya tombs continued to bear the constant pressure and heavy burden of receiving many dead people daily, exceeding their absorption capacity and causing the burial space to run out in the two graves.  Given the sensitivity of this issue, and considering the job performed by the graves in general and to continue the demand for these two spaces in particular by the residents of the greater Tunis regions, the municipality intends to initiate additional expansion works soon for the Zalaj cemetery from the southern side towards the Burj Ali Al-Rayes area, on an area of ​​7 hectares Almost, at a cost of 01 million dinars, in order to increase the capacity of the current cemetery. The process requires doing the various road and network work (VRD) represented by wiping the floor and covering it with appropriate soil at a height of one meter to embrace the graves and preparing roads, paths and sidewalks and public enlightenment and planting trees to provide shadows for visitors, and building an external fence to protect this expansion with the demolition of the old fence separating the current cemetery and the programmed expansion . On the other hand, due to the lack of the western region of the city of Tunis (the circles of Sigumi, Flowers, Hariri, Tahrir, and Upper Urbanism) for places where burial is permitted, and given the proximity of these areas to the Sidi Hussein municipality area, which became available on a new cemetery known as Al-Attar Cemetery and wiped over 32 hectares expandable Fenced, equipped with the necessary administrative and health facilities and thus represents an important additional gain, and in the search for alternative solutions in the short term to reduce the burden on the Zalaj cemetery, coordination was done with the municipality of Sidi Hussein to enable the citizens of the above-mentioned areas to bury their dead in the place cemetery (Al-Attar Cemetery) , And the Tunisian municipality hopes that this measure will be met by the residents of the western regions of Tunis, as it aims to bring services closer to them. Various cemeteries in Tunis 1- Islamic Cemeteries: The cemetery of the sled, the sled The cemetery of Sidi Yahya, El-Omran Governorate of Islamic cemeteries Phone: 71.49.23.47 Fax: 71.39.34.17 Working hours: All days of the week from seven in the morning to six in the evening 2- Non-Islamic graves: - The Christian cemetery, which is directly under the supervision of the Tunisian municipality, located in the Borghel Montblaiser region, on Khair El Din Pasha Street. The Jewish cemetery, which is at the disposal of a religious committee. The Greek Artodox Cemetery, which is under the supervision of the Greek Embassy in Tunis, Rue Bray Street (formerly Barto Street).