28.12.2025 11:20
With the 'Cemetery Information System' implemented by Elazığ Municipality, 49,300 graves have been digitized. Citizens will be able to easily access grave photos and location information from anywhere in the world, and those who wish can also have Yasin-i Sharif and Fatiha recited through the system.
Smart city applications implemented by Elazığ Municipality to enhance service quality and efficiency are making life easier in many areas, and these applications are also appreciated by citizens.
Elazığ Municipality, which keeps pace with technology and has successfully launched projects in various fields, continues its work on geographic information systems without interruption. The Cemetery Information System, implemented within this scope, has attracted great interest.
NEARLY 50 THOUSAND GRAVES PHOTOGRAPHED ONE BY ONE Teams photographed 49,300 graves one by one, primarily in Asri and Harput, and uploaded them to the system along with their locations. Especially citizens who are abroad or unable to visit the graves can now view the photos of their relatives' graves from anywhere in Turkey through the Elazığ Municipality website and easily find their locations. Additionally, citizens who wish can also have Yasin and Fatiha recited through the system.
"WE WILL CONTINUALLY UPLOAD OUR DECEASED CITIZENS TO THE SYSTEM" Elazığ Deputy Mayor Nazif Bilginoğlu stated that the main goal of Elazığ Municipality is human-centered social municipalism, saying, "In every service provided, we aim to continue our work focused on people and to maintain our services in this area. We are working towards a municipalism compatible with the digital age so that our people can benefit from services more comfortably and access them easily. We provide services to our citizens through many modules within geographic information systems. In this work, we consider the Cemetery Information System to be particularly important.
In the digital sense, it can be accessed both from the Elazığ Municipality website and from a program that can be downloaded to mobile phones. Our citizens will be able to reach their deceased relatives from anywhere in Turkey. As a result of the work, 49,300 graves have been photographed and uploaded to the system with their information. This work was primarily done in Asri and Harput, and the efforts are still ongoing. We will continually upload our deceased citizens to this system. Therefore, our citizens will be able to find their relatives' graves by entering names and surnames from their location. Additionally, they can listen to or have the Fatiha and Yasin surahs recited on the site whenever they wish. Providing services to those who cannot visit cemeteries or are far away is one of the efforts made to keep pace with the digital age," he said.