The columbarium at Père-Lachaise, one of the largest in France, holds roughly how many individual cinerary niches?
The answer
According to the City of Paris, the columbarium at Père-Lachaise holds around 26,000 cinerary niches. The cemetery also has a garden for the scattering of ashes, where more than 1,300 scatterings take place each year.
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