Pontes assists you with a tailor-made funeral ceremony. At our three locations in Antwerp, Turnhout and Lommel, we welcome you in our stylish, well-equipped auditoriums.
Our experienced funeral service staff will assist you and your funeral director before, during and after the funeral ceremony.
During a funeral ceremony, relatives, friends and acquaintances can pay their last respects to the deceased. This ceremony can take place at Pontes before the cremation (at the coffin) or after the cremation (at the urn).
Even if cremation is not chosen, our auditoriums can be reserved for a farewell ceremony.
Our auditoriums are open to everyone, regardless of belief or religion. Our key words here are accessibility, freedom of choice, neutrality and serenity.
The content of a ceremony is entirely up to you. Every religious or philosophical belief is respected and can be accommodated at Pontes.
There are several options for the content of a funeral ceremony:
either the funeral director or someone he calls upon (a ritual counsellor) takes care of this;
or a prayer leader (for Christian-inspired services) or a liberal humanist consultant from the House of Man (for liberal ceremonies) can be called upon;
or the next of kin can call on a crematorium employee to take care of the farewell moment. Pontes refers to this as a “substantive ceremony”.
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160 seats
(these can be combined to create 250 seats)
For people who are unable to attend the funeral service, the next of kin can request live streaming in advance.
An access code can then be used to log in remotely. This allows everyone to follow the funeral service live.
