Next to the Tauragnai-Kuktiškės road is the village of Avižieniškis. On the north-western side, the road branches off towards the old Jewish cemetery of Tauragnai. After driving along the Tauragnai forest road, on the right side - the territory of the cemetery. It is surrounded by a low stone masonry fence covered with moss. Most of the tombstones are in the western part of the cemetery. Most of them are fallen, broken, stuck in the ground or just their fragments remain. In the cemetery, the ground surface is uneven, with wild grass growing. The old Jewish cemetery is surrounded by a forest on all sides, only on the northern side - a slope that ends at the shore of Lake Labė.
Jewish people would try to hold funerals on the day of death or at least the next day. If it's a Saturday, they couldn’t do many things related to the burial. The deceased would be taken to the cemetery in a wooden box. They would be buried without a coffin. A memorial service would be held at the grave thirty days after the death. After that, they would build a tombstone - a matzevah. The old Jewish cemetery of Tauragnai mostly has granite tombstones with engraved inscriptions in Hebrew characters. These are names, parents' names, and date of death according to the Jewish calendar. At the bottom of the tombstones are engraved five letters in Hebrew, which represent words from the Bible: “May his (or her) soul be bound up in the bond of eternal life”. In this cemetery you can find the memorial stones of Kohanim (priests). They are marked by symbols: two palms next to each other, tilted towards each other and with spaces between the fingers - between the ring finger and middle finger of each hand and between the index finger and thumb of each hand. The Kohanim are the descendants of Aaron, the brother of the Jewish prophet Moses.
When visiting a grave, it is customary to place a stone on it. The custom comes from the times when only a pile of stones marked the place of a grave.
