If you’ve purchased a niche at a columbarium, you will need to find a cremation urn that can go inside. That can be surprisingly hard to do.
But thankfully, we offer a selection of beautiful wood funeral urns designed to fit into a columbarium niche.
Columbarium Niches
These niches are known by a variety of terms – mausoleum niche, columbarium vault, funeral home niche, etc. Generally these are compartments meant to hold cremated remains in a wall at a funeral home, cemetery, columbarium, or mausoleum.
Learn more: What is a Columbarium Niche?
The size of the niche might vary a little depending on how much you are willing to pay, but generally they stay fairly small.
For instance, at Arlington National Cemetery, they require that the funeral urns going into the niche must measure less than nine inches high, wide, and deep. This is typical of the spacial limitations for columbarium niches – the niche you purchase may be a little larger, or a fraction smaller, but it should be pretty close.
You may find difficulty getting an urn online that will fit into the required dimensions. Of course, the funeral home will probably have urns that fit, but you may not like the design or the price point.
That is why we have created this selection of wood funeral urns designed to fit into a standard niche space. Let’s take a look.
Wood Urns Designed to Fit into a Niche
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These wooden niche urns come in two sizes, three wood types, and with two personalization options. Watch the video above for a brief product demonstration, and read on for more information and some additional photos.
Size/Capacity
- Urn sizes are standard adult or companion adult (for two people)
- Standard adult urn holds 218 cubic inches and measures 8.5″ x 8.5″ x 4.5″
- This means that two standard adult urns will measure a combined 8.5″ (cubed) area
- Companion adult urn holds 440 cubic inches, plenty of room for two adults
- The companion urn measures 8.5″ cubed
Wood Types
- Rich, red-hued Mahogany wood
- Subtly understated Natural Cherry wood
- Honey-toned Oak wood with gorgeous woodgrain highlights
- Each urn is crafted in Oregon using real wood
Personalization
- Optional laser engraving of text: name, dates, etc
- Laser engraving is carved into the surface of the wood urn
- We also offer military service emblems: Air Force, Army, Navy, Marine Corps
More Photos
To order or for more information see here.
Daniel has been working in the funeral industry since 2010, speaking directly to grieving families as they made funeral arrangements.
He began researching and publishing funeral articles on this website as part of his role as product and marketing manager at Urns Northwest.
Having written hundreds of articles and growing the site to multiple millions of views per year, Daniel continues to write while providing editorial oversight for US Urns Online’s content team.
Is it possible to have a companion urn made to fit a 3″x6.5″x11.5″ columbarium niche?
Hi Carol,
No, you wouldn’t be able to have a companion urn fit into those dimensions. The total capacity for 3×6.5×11.5 is only 224.25 cubic inches, and a companion urn holds 400 cubic inches on the inside, which doesn’t include the exterior of the urn plus space for clearance when putting the urn into the niche.
is it taboo to remove cremated urn in niche to a secret location away from siblings and others due to family fued from the deceased children?
Hi Jesse,
It would probably depend on the circumstances, but yes, we would recommend against doing that. Traditionally grave sites have been open to be visited by any and all to pay their respects, regardless of any current family conflict. A niche should be treated with equally timeless respect.