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Foochow Mission Cemetery

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Established
  
1847

No. of graves
  
400

Number of graves
  
400

Country
  
China

Date formed
  
1847

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Location
  
Cangshan District, Fuzhou

Type
  
Foreign residents (no longer extant)

Size
  
2 square kilometres (490 acres)

Burials
  
Robert Stewart, Isaac William Wiley, Nathan Sites

Foochow Mission Cemetery (Chinese: 洋墓亭; Pinyin: Yángmùtíng; Foochow Romanized: Iòng-muó-dìng) was a Protestant cemetery once located on the north and south side of a hill at the west end of Maiyuan Road, Cangshan District, Fuzhou, China. Covering an area of about 2 kilometres (1.2 mi), Foochow Mission Cemetery had been the burial ground for the Western Protestant missionaries, medical practitioners and consuls who died in Fuzhou (then known as Foochow) since the founding of the Mission in 1847. Until 1949 there were more than 400 burials, with all tombs 2 by 1 metre (6 ft 7 in by 3 ft 3 in) in size and neatly aligned. The cemetery was demolished during the Cultural Revolution.

Notable interments

  • Carl Joseph Fast
  • Charles Hartwell
  • Nathan Sites
  • Robert Warren Stewart
  • Isaac William Wiley
  • References

    Foochow Mission Cemetery Wikipedia