Cemetery locations
Springvale Botanical Cemetery with spectacular gardens and roses is widely regarded as the most beautiful in Australia.
Contemporary Australian, this unique sanctuary in Dandenong South is designed to honour and celebrate life for all communities.
Melbourne General Cemetery, the first Victorian cemetery designed as a public park for the Melbourne community.
Services
A range of classic and contemporary in-ground burial options, honouring personal, cultural, and religious preferences.
An enduring tribute urn or memorial for a loved one, available in various traditional and contemporary styles across our cemeteries.
Design a lasting memorial plaque with personalised wording, photos and symbols.
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About us
We support the community with arranging and planning personalised burial, cremation, memorial and related support services.
We collaborate closely with various organisations to deliver our services for the community.
We engage with diverse representatives within our communities to help us respond to the needs of our evolving society.
SMCT provides dedicated memorial settings. Explore our wide range of respectful areas designed to support all cultural and religious traditions.
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This area features garden beds with Australian native shrubs, curved pathways, and roses.
Cremation options Rose positions • Shrub positions • Tree positions • Other niches
This is a new area for the Jewish community, providing options for lawn graves, monumental graves, and cremation memorials.
Cremation options Shrub positions
Burial options Headstone on beam • Monumental graves • Children's graves
Culture-and-religion options Jewish
This area has been sensitively designed with beautiful plantings and a small play area. These spaces are designed to be calm, gentle, and comforting, reflecting the innocence of the children they honour.
Burial options Children's graves • Adolescent graves
This area features curved beds of roses and shrubs, along with flowering trees that provide a spectacular wash of colour when in bloom.
Cremation options Rose positions • Shrub positions • Tree positions • Seat positions
This lawn area features a beautiful row of rose memorials, creating a picturesque and serene setting.
Cremation options Rose positions
Some families wish to be present when their loved ones ashes are placed in their final resting place. At an Honouring Life Service, family and friends can come together over a memorial service to scatter or inter ashes in our landscaped gardens or in a grave. Available at all metropolitan cemetery sites only.
Honouring-life-service options Ashes interment
This area features rows of traditional headstones and offers views of the Dandenong Ranges, a creek, a windmill, and various birdlife.
Burial options Headstone on beam
Limited monumental graves are available for Jewish denomination, accommodating up to 2 burials and 6 cremated remains.
Burial options Monumental graves
This area is beautifully landscaped for various cremation memorial options such as roses, trees and wall niches.
Cremation options Tree positions • Shrub positions
A ‘colours of Australia’ design makes this vibrant garden a beautiful and welcoming space. Specially created for the placement of urns, this centrally located area is filled with raised garden beds, and red sand created from recycled house bricks.
Murrun Naroon "Life Spirit" is a sustainable resting place for natural burial graves, surrounded by native trees and shrubs that attract local birds and wildlife.
Burial options Natural burial
This area features a water feature surrounded by lush greenery and beautifully landscaped gardens, providing a peaceful spot for reflection and remembrance.
Cremation options Shrub positions • Family rock positions