The Vienna Central Cemetery (German: Wiener Zentralfriedhof) is one of the largest cemeteries in the world by number of interred,opened on November 1, 1874.

The cemetery spans 2.5 km2 (620 acres) with 330,000 gravesites containing around 3 million deceased, and up to 25 burials daily. It is also the second largest cemetery, after the 4 km2 (990 acres) of Hamburg's Ohlsdorf Cemetery, which is the largest in Europe by land area.

Opposite the cemetery's main gate, across Simmeringer Hauptstrasse, is the Feuerhalle Simmering, Vienna's first crematorium, which was built by Clemens Holzmeister in 1922 in the style of an oriental fortress.

St. Charles Borromeo Cemetery Church is the central church of the cemetery. It used to be called Dr. Karl-Lueger-Gedächtniskirche (Karl Lueger Memorial Church) because of the crypt of the former mayor of Vienna below the high altar. This church in Art Nouveau style was built in 1908–1910 by Max Hegele.

A Viennese joke has it that the Central Cemetery is "half the size of Zürich, but twice as much fun", (German: Halb so groß wie Zürich – aber doppelt so lustig ist der Wiener Zentralfriedhof!)

The central cemetery in its current form consists, on the one hand, of the interdenominational “main cemetery”, which is available as a final resting place for every deceased person, regardless of religious belief, and, on the other hand, of the various denominational cemeteries and departments.

The majority of the main cemetery has always consisted of Catholic graves. In addition, there are now departments and cemeteries of the following other denominations:

Tomb in the old Jewish cemetery.

Buddhist

Evangelical

Islamic (old, new and Islamic-Egyptian section)

Jewish (old and new cemetery)

Orthodox (Russian, Greek, Romanian etc.)

Mormon