Bare Cemetery

The Bare Cemetery is a cemetery complex in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina opened in 1965, with the first funeral and interment occurring on 3 January 1966.^[1]

Bare Cemetery
Bare Cemetery pictured in 2020
Details
Established	1965
Location	Sarajevo
Country	Bosnia and Herzegovina
Coordinates	43.523°N 18.235°E / 43.523; 18.235
Type	Public
Owned by	City of Sarajevo
Website	www.pokop.ba

The central part of the cemetery is a spacious plateau with a staircase and a porch that connects the Catholic, Orthodox, Muslim, Jewish and atheist chapels, designed by Smiljan Klaić, and the frescoes in the porch were painted by Rizah Štetić.^[2]

Burials

• Hasan Brkić (1913–1965), politician and partisan
• Josip Bulat (1905–1970), footballer and football manager^[3]
• Jurislav Korenić (1915–1974), theater and television director, classical musician, theorist, art critic and playwright.
• Milan Vukša (1903–1980), prominent figure in the Yugoslav Partisans resistance and a highly decorated officer of the Yugoslav People's Army
• Nerćes Novo (1928–1983), footballer^[4]
• Dražen Ričl (1962–1986), rock musician
• Goran Čengić (1946–1992), handball player
• Milan Ribar (1930–1996), footballer and football manager
• Davorin Popović (1946–2001), singer-songwriter
• Mirza Delibašić (1954–2001), basketball player
• Slobodan Kovačević (1946–2004), rock guitarist
• Žan Marolt (1964–2009), actor
• Ines Fančović (1925–2011), actress
• Vaso Radić (1923–2011), politician and former mayor of Sarajevo
• Kemal Monteno (1948–2015), singer-songwriter^[5]
• Srđan Dizdarević (1952–2016), journalist, diplomat, and activist
• Božidar Matić (1937–2016), politician and former chairman of the Council of Ministers^[6]
• Anur Hadžiomerspahić (1971–2017), artist and graphic designer
• Alija Behmen (1940–2018), politician and former mayor of Sarajevo
• Muhamed Filipović (1929–2020), writer, essayist, theorist and philosopher
• Beba Selimović (1936–2020), folk and sevdalinka singer
• Emina Zečaj (1929–2020), sevdalinka singer^[7]
• Jovan Divjak (1937–2021), Bosnian army general^[8]
• Ivica Osim (1941–2022), footballer and football manager^[9]
• Mirsad Tuka (1965–2023), actor^[10]
• Josip Pejaković (1948–2025), actor and writer^[11]