Steps to Take in case of death:

1. The IAR has no funeral home nor have a funeral director on payroll. Please call the cemetery committee at 919 834 9572 x336 and follow the instructions. This number is not manned 24/7. It is very important that you follow the instructions and allow up to 2 hours for response from the committee. The committee is run entirely by volunteers and usually does its best to respond as quickly as possible. Therefore response may take longer during business hours when volunteers may be at work. To decrease our response time and increase the chance of getting hold of one of us, the committee has recently acquired 3 cell phone numbers (numbers listed under Contacts below). Please call us after you have read our brochure. The brochure is good resource for some of the initial steps following death in the family. Therefore we strongly encourage you to read it before calling us.
2. Fill in the burial registration form
3. Make arrangement with a funeral home
4. Recover the body from the hospital (or home)
5. Wash the body and prepare for burial
6. Cemetery committee will arrange for digging the gravesite
7. Plan the funeral procession
8. Offer funeral prayer (Salatul Janazah)
9. Bury the dead

Note: The MPH in the Masjid is available (after reservation) to accept condolences

Contact Persons:

• IAR Cemetery Committee rotates contact persons on monthly basis so call (919) 834 9572 x336 for this month’s contact persons. Also call our cell phones at (919) 961 2595, (919) 961 2597 and (919) 413 9757.

Funeral homes:

• IAR Cemetery Committee has the latest list of Funeral homes on contract. Please call the committee for details. Funeral homes charge only agreed price

Approximate cost (may change):

• Gravesite FREE
• Washing FREE
• Burial Kit, Wood, Grave Marker, $400
• Grave digging $450
• Funeral home* $1200-2000
• Total $2050-2850

* The service at the funeral home includes:

• Body transfer from the hospital to the funeral home
• Use of bathing room facilities.
• Preparing the body, including Kafan.
• Casket.
• Use of visiting room.
• Funeral Van/car whole day.