Cemeteries to Merge After Audit on Sydney Grave Space

This photo taken on September 24, 2017 shows visitors sitting amongst the gravestones to commemorate the 150-year anniversary of Rockwood -- the largest cemetery in the southern hemisphere -- in Sydney. PETER PARKS/AFP via Getty Images

Three years is all some Orthodox and Muslim communities have left before their allocated grave space in Sydney’s crown cemeteries is filled.

And the Eastern Orthodox faith, which includes Greek Orthodox, will run out of grave space in four and a half years.