Cemetery of the Roman Catholic Parish of St. George in Janów

Cemetery of the Roman Catholic Parish of St. George in Janów, founded in early 19^th century, spread after 1934 due to the efforts of Fr. Adam Ostrowski. Irregular plan. Situated in the southern part of the village, by the Janów – Przystawka road. Area of 3.5 ha. Surrounding wall with a brick gate from the first half of the 20^th century – built due to the efforts of Fr. Izydor Cybulski, from bricks that remained after building the church in Janów. In the centre there is a wooden chapel, moved to the present location in 1904. The oldest gravestone, from 1867, is an openwork, cast iron cross on a stone pedestal, fenced, on the grave of Fr. Jan Polikowski d. 20.01.1867. Around the chapel, there are cast iron gravestones in a form of pedestals topped with a cross, stone obelisks, gravestones from early 20^th century shaped as stone branches, cast iron crosses from the second half of the 19^th century, a brick obelisk – originally plastered (there are similar obelisks in the Catholic cemetery in Grodno, dated back to early 19^th century), over 600 historic gravestones – mostly openwork crosses from Sztabin from the second half of the 19^th century, among them a cast iron cross on a pyramid, cast iron base: OH, BLEEDING HEART OF JESUS, HAVE MERCY ON THE DECEASED IN 1873; JESU CHIRSTI,/ MISERERE NOSTRI/ SECUNDUM MAGNUM/ MISERICORDIAM TUAM/ 1873 FROM SITAWKA; FOR THE SOULS/ OF LITTLE CHILDREN/ I ASK FOR THE ANGELIC/ SALUTATION/ THE FOUNDER, BLAUSZEWSKI/ 1878; a cross with an inscription plaque in a rare form of a rectangle topped with a trefoil: TO COMFORT THE HOLY MOTHER OF GOD MATEUSZ KORZENIEWSKI/ 1875, historically significant – a granite tombstone with the inscription: D. O. M./ FR. ONUFRY/ CZAJKOWSKI/ RECTOR/ OF THE CHURCH IN JANÓW/ BORN 29^TH OCT. 1830/ D. 4^TH APR 1894/ ASKS FOR A HAIL MARY.