Protestant Cemetery (Mussoorie)

India / Uttaranchal / Landhaura Cantonment / Mussoorie
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Very old British graveyard, extends above and below the back Chukkar (road). Tall pines, terraces, looks out over high Himalayas (Bandar Poonch range).
There is a path leading down toward the Aglar river takes you to Kolti where you can watch a stream-driven grain mill in operation.
Generally members of Kellogg and St Paul's Churches are still buried here.
Historically the cemetery below the road was for Roman Catholics.
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Coordinates:   30°27'47"N   78°5'52"E

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  • I visited this in Aug 1985 with my cousin when I was working as Senior Scientist in IRDE, Dehradun. As soon as you enter this place there is a huge & tall pine tree beneath it is written who planted it. And you will be surprised to know it was planted by HRH Prince of Wales as far as I can recall!
  • Olden Grave-yards; famous, for Eurepean, American, Australian, INDIAN CHRISTEINS, now, and the Olden Britishers, also! Cemeteries: •Cemetery, near famous, Language School and Church, Upper Landour, Cantonment, Depot, a little-higher, a beautiful road, covered by 'pines', devdar forest, towards the Northern-side, passing-out the Children's Cottage, at the end of Upper Landour, Mussoorie and meets 'Char-sukane', adjoining second Church; very beautiful; I LOVE; my friend escorts me, also; he comes, often! - Cemetery and on Camel’s Back Road, also! Find-out, from Britain, Europe and USA, also; they were laid-out; during 18th, 19th century, upto 1947 August, also! Please check-up and read, Gazzeeteer of Doon Valley!
  • 'NOT A DEAD ISSUE'; GRAVE-YARDS, AT UPPER LANDOUR AND CAMEL's ROAD, MUSSOORIE; CHANDER NAGAR, DEHRADUN!According to a news item, ‘Cemetery Tourism’ has hit India with about six lakhs Britons, visiting India annually. Many of the tourists from British and other countries from Europe come to India to visit the Cemeteries, built during the British Empire. Tourists from these areas would, also, like to visit their own roots, their fore-fathers, who died and buried in Doon Dun, Rajpur, Landour and Mussoorie. Naturally, tourists would like to come and visit the Cemeteries in Doon Valley. Uttarakhand Tourism Department should maintain and take care of the cemeteries. A record of old graves and maps of cemeteries, showing locations of towns, can be made available for tourists, on their website. The cemeteries at Mussoorie and Dehra Dun should be properly maintained. Tourism Department should be in touch with ‘The British Association of Cemeteries in South India (BACSA)’and abroad. Some of the famous cemeteries can also be seen at Meerut, Lucknow, Roorkie, Simla, Kasauli, Mcleodgang, Dalhousie, Pathankot, Delhi, Shillong, Kohima, Darjeeling, Calcutta, Lucknow and other garrisons and cantonments in North India and also the places in South India and North-east of India .I have been lucky to see some of the cemeteries .Tremendous potential is available for tourism in India, waiting from Europe. During my child-hood (in 1950’s), I spent my happy days in Mussoorie, where I spent my evenings in the Cemeteries at Upper Landour and Camel’s Back, every week. Cemeteries, even now, fascinate me. I always love and haunt me, when I visited a cemetery. I also visited twice at Kohima, Nagaland in 1967 and 1995.I spent some memorable, a few hours, at ‘War Memorial’. ‘We gave our life today, saved their tomorrow’, a beautiful cemetery, built during Second World War. I was going through the history, reading epitaphs, inscribed on the graves. I was lost in past, I visited the cemetery, as if I came for pilgrimage or ‘Teertha Yatra’, with flower. In 1991, a lady came from Britain and I accompanied her to visit a grave of a distant relative at Camel’s Back Road. I located the grave. She was over-whelmed and exclaimed “I came to India, Thank God; I came for ‘Teertha- yatra’, as the Hindus would say ‘for a pilgrimage’. I am doubly blessed, visited the cemetery and also stayed in India, for a few days more.” PLEASE VISIT; NAGALAND; Capital, the adjoining Grave-yards, also! References: 1. Ruskin Bond and Ganesh Saili (1997), Mussoorie & Landour, an Imprint of Roli Books, New Delhi. 2. Sunday Times, Nov.2006
  • It is true a number of Europeans visit to discover and know about their roots here in Mussoorie. When I was in Mussoorie and living in the Doctors flat of the Civic Hospital one saturday afternoon a middle aged white man appeared in the OPD where my ex-wife was engaged lookinng at the patients who were all Indians from around the hilly area. When his turn came to meet the Doctor he instead of saying he was sick and needed some medicine inquired if he can see the hospital's civil ward for women and the labour room. I was sitting just there waiting for the Doctor to finish looking at all the patients. We all were quite amused what ths guy is asking and why is he asking for that. On inquiry it got revealed that he was born in this very hospital and has travelled all the way from New Zealand to see for himself his actual place of birth and the labour room in which his mother gave birth to him.
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