Christian Cemetery (Kabul) | park, christianity, war cemetery

Afghanistan / Kabul / Kabul
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The cemetery was built in 1879 to hold the dead of the second Anglo-Afghan War. Also known as the White Cemetery or the British Cemetery, the graveyard was originally a burial site for soldiers killed in Britain's ill-fated colonial adventures in Afghanistan: the Anglo-Afghan wars of the 19th century. About 150 remains are buried here, some beneath gravestones that are cracked, chipped or no longer legible.
Officially the garden is now known as the Christian cemetery and contains explorers, diplomats, adventurers, merchants and aid workers from across the world.
But while headstones commemorate Russian, Germans, French, Italians and Canadians, to the Afghan residents of Kabul, it remains simply the 'British cemetery'.
The cemetery is looked after by Mr Rahimullah.


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Coordinates:   34°32'33"N   69°10'25"E

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  • The only christian cemetry in Kabul.
  • Here lies the great hungarian archeologist, Sir Marc Aurel Stein.
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