Columbarium

Remember the small rural churches with the adjoining cemeteries? Seeing these cemeteries gives us a warm and reassuring feeling that, even in death, the loved ones remain close to the church and the worshipping families.

Our Memorial Garden offers us the opportunity to experience similar feelings. Included within the Garden are two features, a Columbarium and a Memorial Wall. The Garden encourages members to feel more emotionally and spiritually connected to their community of faith and their interred loved ones.

The Columbarium contains 120 granite faced niches into which urns of cremated remains are to be placed. Each niche contains one or two urns. Cremation has become increasingly recognized as an ecologically and economically sound Christian alternative to ground burial.

The design incorporates the pentagon shape in the base, carrying on the recurring architectural theme found throughout the church. The shape of a cross is subtly inscribed in the base.

The Memorial Wall
Incorporated into the design of the Memorial Garden near the Columbarium is the Memorial Wall. An engraved granite wall plaque may be selected to memorialize a loved one who is interred elsewhere or who has not chosen the Columbarium provision. A wall plaque may be selected for any person regardless of when death occurred or the place of disposition.

The Memorial Garden Committee sincerely invites you to consider our Memorial Garden as a final earthly home for you and your loved ones.

To make arrangements or if you have further questions please call the church office.  A staff member will be happy to call or visit with you.

Ascension Lutheran Church

7100 N. Mockingbird Lane

Paradise Valley AZ 85253

480-948-6050