Krist cemetery is a listed cemetery in Oslo and is in Grubbegata in Hammersborg.

The main gate to the cemetery is from Grubbegata.

Krist cemetery is open to the public from May 1st to October 1st between 9am - 3.30pm. (kl. 09 – 15:30)

The cemetery is closed during the winter.



After the big city fire in Oslo in 1624, King Christian IV decided that the city should be rebuilt at Akershusneset (at Akershus Fortress) - and the town's name should be Christiania. (Christiania became Kristiania from 1877/1897 and Oslo from 1925, and the borough that always had the name Oslo is called Gamlebyen / Old Town). The first church to be completed in Christiania was the Christ Church, a small wooden chapel built in 1626 - demolished in 1756.



In 1654 a cemetery was built at Christ Church; Christ Cemetery. The reason was that Christiania was again affected by the plague, the latest in this country. Akershus fortress did not have enough burial grounds, and therefore a small cemetery was built at Christ Church. The plague victims were given a common monument, Peststøtten - it is Oslo's oldest known monument. Peststøtten says little about those who were buried, but still has more information about those who paid for it - except for the first buried soldier, Arne Sigvaldssøn, from Vang, who is mentioned.



The official name of the cemetery was Christ, but it went by the name of Krigs kirkegården (War Cemetery) because it belonged to the military. For many years, the cemetery covered only the area it does today. But when the cholera epidemic reached Christiania in 1835, the cemetery was expanded, the same several times later. Finally, it stretched all the way down to Møllergata in 1856.



In 1901, parts of the cemetery were demolished to make room for the city's town hall, which was never built there - instead came the Deichmanske main library. The cemetery was closed in 1924. In 1946, Grubbegata was extended to Fredensborgveien and divided the cemetery in two. On the lower part (the area between Grubbegata and Møllergata) the graves were deleted, and the area was converted into a park after the protection period was over in 1964 - today known as Kristparken.



The upper part (the one that can be seen today, which roughly corresponds to the original cemetery), remained standing and decaying, and was locked until it was rehabilitated and reopened as a memorial park in 1999. Today we write Krist cemetery with K.