Pele Funeral LIVE Updates: PELE will be laid to rest in a special “vertical cemetery” – a 14-floor building with 14,000 vaults, a waterfall, and a car museum. Due to his precarious health, the 82-year-old legendary footballer was hospitalised in the Albert Einstein Israelite hospital in Sao Paulo. On Friday morning, he passed away after losing his fight with cancer. Here are the specifics for Pele’s funeral ceremony, including the time, date, and location. Follow Pele Funeral LIVE Updates
Pele Funeral LIVE Updates: Preparations start for PELE’s last journey, Santos FC Stadium to host Funeral, Check Date, Time & Follow LIVE Updates (insidesport.in)
Pele Funeral LIVE Updates: Pele to be laid to rest in a 14-floor tall unique ‘vertical cemetery’, check date, time of his FUNERAL: Follow LIVE Updates
Pele’s funeral will be conducted just outside of Sao Paulo, at Vila Belmiro Stadium, the home of Santos Football Club. The funeral service will be held on Monday and Tuesday.
Before a procession through the streets of Santos to honour the icon, his casket will be left on the field for fans to pay their respects for 24 hours.
The procession will proceed past Canal 6, where Pele’s mother resides, and WILL continue to Memorial Necropole Ecumenica, a distinctive “vertical cemetery,” where he will be interred in privacy with other family members.
The funeral will start at 10 am local time (6:30 IST) on January 2nd and last for 24 hours until 10 am local time on January 3rd.
Memorial Necropole Ecumenica
The permanently illuminated Memorial Necropole Ecumenica, in Santos, near Sao Paulo, Brazil, is 14 storeys high, and occupies an area of 1.8 ha (4.4 acres). Its construction started in March 1983 and the first burial was on 28 July 1984.
According to the Guinness Book of World Records, it has 14 stories and 14,000 vaults, making it the world’s tallest vertical cemetery. It is situated between large buildings and verdant trees.
It has even become a tourist attraction in its own right.
Pele Funeral LIVE: Santos FC Stadium to host funeral
- Pele breathed his last on Thursday in a Sao Paolo Hospital.
- His funeral will be held on Monday, with the ceremony set to continue for 24 hours.
- Pele’s coffin eill be carried around the streets in Santos, where he spent most of his playing career.
- The Vila Belmiro Stadium, the home of Santos Football Club will be holding the funeral service
- His body will be finally buried at the Memorial Necropole Ecumenica
- Only family members will be allowed in the premises.
Pele Funeral LIVE Updates: Pele to be laid to rest in a 14-floor tall unique ‘vertical cemetery’, check date, time of his FUNERAL: Follow LIVE Updates
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