Chişinău's Catholic cemetery is located in the part of the city called Rose Valley. The cemetery is believed to be established in 1822, and before that there was a garden and a boarding house for the elderly. It is an international cemetery (Poles, Armenians, Germans, Russians, Italians are buried here), but is traditionally called "Polish" by the city's inhabitants. The 2 ha area includes a Roman Catholic and an Armenian-Gregorian section, which are not clearly demarcated. From the 1940s the cemetery was treated as a municipal cemetery; in the 1960s the old graves in the eastern part were removed in favour of new burials https://www.prospect.md/ro/history/cimitire-morminte/cimitirul-romano-catolic-si-armean-gregorian.html . In the last quarter of the 20th century, part of the cemetery was damaged by a series of earthquakes, as a result of which many graves disappeared irretrievably. The Polish graves have been cared for for years by members of the Association "Polish Spring in Moldova". In 2020, a plaque was unveiled in the cemetery to inform about the buried people of Polish origin http://https://ida.pol.org.pl/jesienne-porzadki-na-polskim-cmentarzu .

According to Zbigniew Hauser, the oldest surviving Polish tombstones date to the mid-19th century. The author found 34 inscriptions in Polish. There are sometimes bilingual inscriptions on tombstones, such as the one on a magnificent black marble plinth topped with a cross, with a trace of a photograph, on the grave of Piotr Winckowski, who died in 1911. Attention is also drawn to gravestones on which no crosses have survived. The impressive stone monument of Stanisław Nowicki (died 1915) decorated with convex carved wreaths or the plinth with a cartouche and traces of a coat of arms or photograph on the grave of Franciszek Łomiński (died 1884). Other forms of gravestones found in the cemetery are knotty trunks and tombstones. The cemetery also preserves a neo-Gothic burial chapel of the Ohanowicz family (a family of Polish Armenians) from 1912 http://www.monument.sit.md/biserici/valea-trandafirilor-11-oganowici/ and an Armenian chapel from 1916.

The Foundation "Helping Poles in the East" carried out restoration work at the cemetery. Implementation of the project began in 2015 http://https://ida.pol.org.pl/jesienne-porzadki-na-polskim-cmentarzu . The tombstones of Kazimierz Mirowski (d. 1909) and Aleksander Voloshynsky (tombstone not mentioned by Hauser) were restored https://pol.org.pl/2019/10/22/raszkow-polskie-cmentarze-w-moldawii .

The cemetery and chapels are listed in the Register of Monuments of the Republic of Moldova https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cimitirul_catolic_din_Chi%C8%99in%C4%83u .