Peterborough's Muslim burial ground - a designated Muslim section inside a general commercial cemetery operated by Arbor Memorial (rosemountmemorial.ca redirects to Arbor's own branch page). The Kawartha Muslim Religious Association (KMRA, Peterborough Masjid) publishes this address and phone on its own funeral-services page as "the cemetery's contact info" and states in terms: "The body must be buried in the Muslim section of the cemetery. Please ensure a KMRA Board member or the imam selects the burial site", and "A family member of the deceased needs to sign off a document at the cemetery and with a KMRA Board member to bury the body in the Muslim section of the cemetery." That is the basis for muslim_section: true; it is a section, not an all-Muslim ground, so all_muslim is false. KMRA runs a "Cemetery and Burial Program" whose donations go "directly and mainly towards purchasing plots in the Cemetery", and states "To fully purchase a plot under your name, please contact donations@kmrapeterborough.org" - the basis for plots_available: true. KMRA's designated ghusl facility is Nisbett Funeral Home (ask for "the Muslim Package"); burial boxes are required by the cemetery by-laws; funeral services run about $2,500 excluding the plot; weekend and statutory-holiday burials cost extra and may not be available at all because of cemetery staffing. NOT SOURCED: the size of the Muslim section, the cemetery's acreage, and whether graves face qiblah.
At a glance
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: size. 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.
- Rosemount Memorial Gardens - Arbor Memorial — arbormemorial.ca
- Funeral Services - Kawartha Muslim Religious Association (Peterborough) — kmrapeterborough.org