Jókai Mór síremléke - Budapest

In 1904, Mór Jókai received a grave on a circle between the two rows of arcades under construction. Its first headstone, if desired, was made of the material of the gate of its own house. As much as he received a grandiose funeral - his monumental funeral home was designed by Ödön Lechner - his grave later became neglected. Until 1925, the papers wrote almost every year that the writer of the nation, although resting in a privileged place, did not have a worthy tomb, but no one cared for even the existing one, especially his family. formal wreath. Finally, in 1925, a tender was announced for the Jókai tomb, one of the conditions of which was to take into account the writer's wish that there should be no tombstone above his grave. The tender was for “only” tombstones. The Jókai tombstone with an imaginative solution, the work of Jenő Kismarty-Lechner and Richárd Füredi, was built in 1928. (Vilmos Tóth: The Century of Kerepesi út Cemetery) On the garden wall surrounding the tomb, the symbols of the tree of life do not exactly evoke elements of the Christian faith, but rather the prints of the Art Nouveau workshop in Gödöllő at the turn of the century. Inscription: “What I have in my soul goes with you. He will always be there among you. You will find it among your flowers when they wither; you will find it in the tree leaf when it falls; you will hear in the evening bell when it fades away, and when you remember me, I will always face you face to face. ” (Mór Jókai: Echoes of Forty Years)