Cemetery St. Francis Xavier

No-go area in central Maputo

A small section with military graves is still intact, but to get there is hardly possible. The former cemetery is largely overgrown and serves as a public toilet. Even for homeless people it is a hard...

Shame

This cemetery (like the Lhanguene cemetery) has been looted and desecrated over many years. The authorities do absolutely nothing about it. It is now a stronghold for homeless and criminals. Not ad...

interesting but dangerous

I lived for two years near to the cemetery and could watching it from the top. The cemetery is in a very bad state, and now is the house of homeless people, plus it used for hiding by little criminal...

interesting

I liked the place but would prefer a guide to explain about the place and have more information. I don’t speak Portuguese so if you don’t read about the place before you go there.

Very very sad

I blame misery and poverty for the state this cemetery is in, this is a colonial time cemetery, it´s been heavily vandalized, it´s shocking to see that the dead have not been respected, this place is ...