Types of Monuments We Offer

A Christian memorial is one of many ways to honor a life. Browse the full range and see what speaks to you:

• Traditional Monuments — Classic upright designs that have marked family plots for generations.
• Distinctive Shapes — One-of-a-kind silhouettes designed around a life, a passion, or a story.
• Celtic & Irish Monuments — Celtic crosses and knotwork honoring Irish heritage.
• Jewish Monuments — Memorials designed in keeping with Jewish tradition and custom.
• Hearts — Single, double, and triple hearts, the enduring symbol of love.
• Laser & Glass Art Etchings — Portraits, scenes, and fine detail etched into polished granite.
• Hand Carved Monuments — Sculpted stone artistry shaped by hand, not by machine.
• Classic Shapes — Timeless forms with clean, quiet lines.
• Bronze & Gold Leaf Lettering — Rich lettering and accents that catch the light for decades.

Not sure where to begin? Our memorial options page lays out everything side by side, or you can view all our memorials at once.

The Benefits of Working with a Locally Trusted Monument Company

With a Christian monument, two things have to be right that a general monument shop can easily get wrong: the faith and the cemetery.

The faith comes first. A cross is not just a cross. A Latin cross, a Celtic cross, a crucifix bearing the corpus, and an Orthodox cross each mean something specific, and the difference matters deeply to the families they belong to. The same is true of the praying hands, the Sacred Heart, the Chi-Rho, the Alpha and Omega, and the saints. We take the time to understand which symbols belong on your loved one's memorial and to render them accurately, so the finished stone reflects their belief exactly as it was held. If you want to include a Bible verse, we'll help you set the wording and citation correctly too.

The cemetery comes second, and it's a bigger factor here than most families expect. Northeast Pennsylvania is dense with parish and diocesan cemeteries, and many of them have their own guidelines about religious imagery, upright versus flush memorials, and what a monument may depict. A shop that doesn't work in these cemeteries won't know those rules. We've placed memorials in them for decades, so we can guide your design to honor both your faith and the cemetery's requirements without a painful surprise at approval.

Working locally also means you can coordinate with your parish or funeral director through people who already know them, and you can stand in front of the actual granite before you commit. That closeness matters when the stone is meant to speak for someone's soul.

Monument Services in Scranton, Wilkes-Barre & Northeast PA

Families of faith across the Lackawanna and Wyoming Valleys come to us for:

• Cross monuments in many forms, from a simple upright cross to an elaborate crucifix carved in relief
• Sacred imagery, including praying hands, the Sacred Heart, images of Christ, the Blessed Mother, saints, doves, and lambs
• Scripture and inscription work, with careful attention to wording, translation, and citation
• Religious glass art and laser etchings, ideal for detailed portraits of Christ, the Last Supper, or a church that mattered to the family
• Bronze and gold leaf accents that lend warmth and light to crosses, emblems, and lettering
• Companion memorials for husbands and wives who shared a lifetime of faith
• Foundation work and installation, set and sealed by our own crew
• Adding to and restoring older religious monuments, including lettering a second name or refreshing a weathered emblem

Because faith often shapes how a family approaches the whole decision, we meet you wherever you are. If you've recently lost someone, our at-need guidance helps you take the next step gently. If you're a person of faith planning your own memorial as an act of preparation, planning ahead lets you choose every symbol and word yourself. And if a plot is still to be arranged, our cemetery plot checklist helps you ask the right questions, including whether the cemetery is a religious one with its own monument rules.

Why Families Trust Monuments by Parise

We understand what it means to serve a community of faith, because serving this community is where our family began. We've cared for the area's grieving families since 1941, walking beside them through loss long before we ever cut a stone. In 1997 we opened our monument company, and we trained in every part of the craft under a specialist with more than 40 years of experience before we offered a single memorial for sale.

That background shapes how we handle sacred work. We treat a crucifix or an image of the Blessed Mother the way it deserves to be treated, and our own craftsmen carve and letter it rather than sending it to a distant factory that has never met your family. We draw from one of the region's largest selections of granite and bronze, and we set every finished memorial ourselves on a foundation we build.

Our written guarantee protects your investment for the long run: the granite is certified free from defects and won't chip, crack, or disintegrate, bronze is cast by quality foundries with lettering hand chased and highlighted, and any defective part is replaced at no expense to you or your heirs.

You're also welcome to sit with your options in a quiet, unhurried setting. Our Blakely location is the area's only all-inclusive indoor monument showroom, a fitting place to reflect on the symbols that will speak for someone's faith for generations. Learn more about our family and our promise, or read what other families have shared on our testimonials page.

Proudly Serving Scranton, Wilkes-Barre & Surrounding Communities

We craft Christian monuments for families throughout Northeast Pennsylvania, including Scranton, Wilkes-Barre, Blakely, Carbondale, Pittston, Dickson City, Olyphant, Jessup, Archbald, Dunmore, Clarks Summit, Peckville, Throop, Taylor, Old Forge, Moosic, Avoca, Duryea, Forest City, Honesdale, Tunkhannock, and the neighboring communities.

Faith runs deep in this region's history. The churches built by coal-era immigrants, Irish, Italian, Polish, Slovak, Lithuanian, and more, still anchor these towns, and their parish cemeteries hold generations of the faithful. Families here often place a memorial among relatives who worshiped in the same pews and are buried on the same consecrated ground. We understand the reverence that carries, and the care it asks of us, whether the tradition is Roman Catholic, Orthodox, or Protestant.

You'll find us close by at three locations: our Blakely showroom at 1975 Scranton Carbondale Highway, our Carbondale display at 89 Farview Street, and our Clifford display at 18 Airport Road.

Contact Us For Christian Monuments in Northeast PA Today

A Christian memorial is a final profession of faith, and it should be shaped with reverence and care. The team at Monuments By Parise will help you choose the symbols, imagery, and scripture that honor your loved one's belief, render every detail faithfully, and set the finished memorial with the respect it deserves.



Call Monuments By Parise at 570-382-3558 or contact us online today to learn more about Christian monuments in Scranton, Wilkes-Barre, and Northeast Pennsylvania.