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For enquiries about our cemeteries or the crematorium, please phone the cemetery office on (04) 237 5089 during business hours. You can also search our cemetery records online. Our cemeteries are open from 7.30 am to dusk every day.
The main cemetery and crematorium at Whenua Tapu between Plimmerton and Pukerua Bay has a peaceful native bush setting and offers various options for burials and cremations. View Whenua Tapu cemetery maps (pdf)
| Address | Airlie Road, Porirua |
| Opening Hours | 7.30am - dusk, every day |
| Phone | (04) 237 5089 |
Many of the 4,000 graves in Porirua Cemetery are unmarked and more than 2,000 are the resting place of patients of the former Porirua mental hospital.
View Porirua Cemetery maps (pdf). List of war veterans known to be buried at Porirua Cemetery: Porirua war veterans
| Address | 32 Kenepuru Drive, Porirua |
| Opening Hours | 7.30am - dusk, every day |
| Phone | (04) 237 5089 |
Pāuatahanui Burial Ground dates back to the 1850s and many members of the district’s pioneer families are buried there.
View Pauatahanui Burial Ground maps (pdf).
Porirua City has several other historic cemeteries. Details for these sites are available on microfiche at Porirua Library's Genealogy Resources:
Soldiers from Porirua have taken part in conflicts as far back as the Boer War, right up to modern peacekeeping mission in war zones around the world. Their stories have been carefully collected and can be found at the Porirua War Stories website, www.poriruawarstories.com
