# Rapaki Church Cemetery, a cemetery of Christchurch

A cemetery of the city, the ground as the open map draws it, also recorded as “Rapaki Urupā”.

From the air, an aerial view of Rapaki Church Cemetery: https://api.chch.live/biz-img?slug=cemetery-rapaki-church-cemetery (LINZ / ECan aerial survey, CC BY 4.0).

## The ground under it

- [Under the hill country’s watch band](https://www.chch.live/slope), the plan’s broad instability overlay
- [Inside a silent-file precinct](https://www.chch.live/cultural), the plan keeps the specifics quiet
- [The plan zones this ground Papakainga Kainga Nohoanga](https://www.chch.live/zones), PA
- [The rockfall survey counts 16 boulders within 500 m](https://www.chch.live/boulders), 6 came down · 4 wobble easy
- [The nearest recorded shake: M3.4](https://www.chch.live/sequence), 22 February 2011 · ~850 m from the pin · 440 logged within 5 km
The whole stack, answered live: https://www.chch.live/before?lat=-43.607103&lon=172.682206&radius=250

## Around it

- [Rapaki Wharf](https://www.chch.live/park/1029-rapaki-wharf), community park · under 150 m
- [Pony Point](https://www.chch.live/park/1718-pony-point), regional park · ~450 m
- [Rapaki Cemetery](https://www.chch.live/cemetery/rapaki-cemetery), cemetery · under 150 m
- [Leper graves](https://www.chch.live/cemetery/leper-graves), cemetery · 2.9 km
- [Lyttelton Anglican Cemetery](https://www.chch.live/cemetery/lyttelton-anglican-cemetery), cemetery · 3.4 km
- [Lyttelton Catholic and Public Cemetery](https://www.chch.live/cemetery/lyttelton-catholic-and-public-cemetery), cemetery · 3.5 km


## Questions, answered briefly

**Does this page list who is buried there?**

No, the map records the ground, not the graves. Burial records live with the council’s cemetery search and the headstone transcriptions, both linked from the page.


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The ground is OpenStreetMap’s, a named node, way or relation tagged landuse=cemetery inside the city boundary (ODbL). The ground is the map’s; the graves are the council’s, the register of plots is their Green Assets layer (gmCemeteryPlot), names included only where the death is seventy years gone or more.
The page: https://www.chch.live/cemetery/rapaki-church-cemetery
The monuments beside them: https://www.chch.live/memorial