Forest Lawn Memorial Park has no website of its own that we could find, so this page may be the main page that exists for it. Everything here comes from the community and government sources cited below, and corrections from the organisation itself are applied first.
Large general cemetery on Royal Oak Avenue in Burnaby, listed first among the three cemeteries used by the Az-Zahraa Islamic Centre (The Shia Muslim Community of British Columbia) on its own funeral-services cemeteries page, which publishes this address and phone and links a downloadable site map of the grounds (az-zahraa.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/forestlawn_site_map.pdf). This is a DIFFERENT place from Forest Lawn Memorial Gardens in London, Ontario, and from Ocean View Burial Park (also in Burnaby, already in this directory as the BC Muslim Association's Burnaby ground). NOT CONFIRMED: whether Forest Lawn has a formally designated Muslim section, its operator, acreage, plot availability, or whether graves face qiblah - Az-Zahraa's page states only the name, address and phone, and no operator page was found that mentions Muslim burial. A website could not be verified, so the field is left null rather than guessed. Rank: needs a phone call.
At a glance
Mosques that bury here
These organisations name this cemetery on their own funeral pages. That is confirmation from the masjid, not from the cemetery.
Arranging a burial here
- Contact the masjid handling the janazah first — most cemeteries deal with the funeral provider rather than the family directly.
- Ask what the plot costs and, separately, what opening and closing the grave costs. They are almost always billed apart, and the second surprises people.
- Ask whether the section faces qiblah and what markers are permitted.
- See what a Muslim burial costs across Canada before you commit — plot prices vary more than fourfold between cities.
What we haven’t confirmed
We could not establish: whether the grounds are entirely Muslim, whether there is a designated Muslim section, size, whether plots are available. Those are published as gaps rather than filled with a plausible guess. If you know the answer — especially if you are from this organisation — tell us and we will verify and update the listing.
Planning ahead, rather than in a crisis?
The two things a funeral coordinator asks a family for are the burial wishes and the will. Recording where your will is kept and working out the inheritance shares now spares your family both questions at the worst possible moment.
Where to go next
Sources for this listing
Every factual claim on this page traces to a source below. Details change — check the original source before relying on any figure, fee or legal position.
- Maps (Cemeteries) - Az-Zahraa Community — az-zahraa.org