Bangkok Protestant Cemetery

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Bangkok Protestant Cemetery
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A view of the Bangkok Protestant Cemetery looking east
Bangkok Protestant Cemetery
Details
Established1853
Location
Soi 72/5, Charoen Krung Road, Bangkok
Country Thailand
Coordinates 13°42′22″N100°30′20″E / 13.70611°N 100.50556°E / 13.70611; 100.50556
TypeFor resident Protestant Christian foreigners of Thailand
StyleProtestant cemetery
No. of graves1,800
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The Bangkok Protestant Cemetery is a cemetery catering mainly to the foreign community in Bangkok. To date, the cemetery has over 1800 interments (around 1100 names are legible on extant gravestones and memorials), and it is still accepting burials on a limited basis. The burial register is kept by Christ Church Bangkok (11 Convent Road).

Contents

There are also a number of Jewish graves here, since before 1997 there was no other place in the city for the small Jewish community to bury their dead. This changed with the opening of the Jewish Cemetery, in a separate property adjacent to this cemetery.

History

The Bangkok Protestant Cemetery was founded by a royal land grant given by King Mongkut on 29 July 1853, to address the need for burial space for Bangkok's growing Protestant community. [1]

Central path and chapel, looking west to the Chao Phraya River Bangkok Protestant Cemetery central path.JPG
Central path and chapel, looking west to the Chao Phraya River

Location

The cemetery is located on the banks of the Chao Phraya River just south of the Menam Riverside Hotel, and 1.75 km south of the Saphan Taksin BTS station along Charoen Krung Road. It is very close to the Asiatique night market.

Notable Interments

Grave of Dan Beach Bradley Grave of Dan Beach Bradley.jpg
Grave of Dan Beach Bradley

References

Notes

  1. "Siam". Singapore Free Press and Mercantile Advertiser . 16 January 1854. Retrieved 2022-06-25 via newspaperSG.
  2. Admiral Bush Biography [ usurped ], accessed 24 March 2009
  3. Henry Alabaster Biography [ usurped ], accessed 3 May 2010