Look for a story in Thursday's religion section about the new memorial garden at St. Paul's Lutheran Church in York.
columbarium
noun
(a) A dovecote or pigeon house.
(b) A vault with niches for urns containing ashes of the dead.
(c) One of the niches in such a vault.
A footnote: The term comes from the Latin columba (dove) and originally referred to compartmentalized housing for doves and pigeons.
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