Wuzhi Mountain Military Cemetery

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The Wuzhi Mountain Military Cemetery (Template:Zh, sometimes romanized as Wuchih) is Taiwan's most prominent military cemetery. The cemetery is located on Wuzhi Mountain (Template:Zh) at an elevation of Script error: No such module "convert".[1] in Xizhi, New Taipei City and borders Taipei City's Neihu District and Yangmingshan National Park. The cemetery has a wide open view ranging from the Taipei 101 over at Taipei's Xinyi District to the Keelung Harbor.[1]

History

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Honor Guards lined up at the Wuzhi Mountain Military Cemetery, 3 September 2014

General Chiang Wei-kuo, the adopted son of Chiang Kai-shek, conceived and designed the cemetery.Script error: No such module "Unsubst". Prior to the construction of the cemetery, the land was used as a golf course.[1] Planning for the cemetery started in April 1980, with construction starting on March 20, 1981; the cemetery opened on March 29, 1982.[2]

A four-story columbarium named the Memorial Palace (Template:Zh) was opened on January 20, 2002 after two years of construction. It has a total capacity of 19,537 niches[3] on the four named floors:[4]

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Issues

Capacity

Although the cemetery has nearly 226 hectares total area, the terrain and building codes restrict interment to only 78 ha of the land.[5] As of 2004Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters"., the cemetery, which has 9,236 grave plots, is nearly full;[6] further deceased military officials will need to be cremated and their ashes stored in the columbarium.

Chiang family

In 2004, Chiang Fang-liang made a request to inter the bodies of Chiang Kai-shek and his son, Chiang Ching-kuo at Wuzhi.[6] However, the plan did not receive universal support from the Chiang family, and despite the completion of their tombs at Wuzhi,[7] Chiang Kai-shek and his son remain at Cihu and Touliao, respectively.[8]

Notable interments

Most are senior generals who served under KMT from mainland China or dignitaries

See also

References

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