The Greek Orthodox community of ancient Chalcedon buried the dead around the churches and monasteries, as usual in the Christian world.

[1] Until the early years of the Republic, the tradition of burying community leaders and high-ranking clergy in churchyards and crypts continued.

The current Eastern Orthodox cemetery that was made available by Sultan Abdul Hamid II for the Greek community on a 10-acre estate in the Hasanpaşa / Uzunçayır area of Kadıköy, continues to be used today.

[citation needed] The current cemetery was founded in 1895, and consists mostly of Greek graves as well as other Orthodox nationalities and ethnoreligious groups such as Russians, Serbians, Bulgarians, Arab and Turkish/Turkic Christians.

Also in the cemetery there is a charnel house, which was built to preserve the bones collected from old and unclaimed graves, as well as an ossuary located beneath the chapel to deposit the exhumed human remains from relocated former burial grounds.