Ta' Braxia Cemetery Chapel (Floriana)

Malta / Inner Harbour / Pieta / Floriana
 chapel, Roman Catholic church
The main landmark at Ta' Braxia Cemetery is the Lady Rachel Hamilton-Gordon Memorial Chapel, which was built to commemorate the wife of Sir Arthur Hamilton-Gordon, 1st Baron Stanmore. While en route from Ceylon to Britain, Lady Hamilton-Gordon fell ill and died in Malta, being buried at Ta' Braxia on 28 January 1889. Sir Hamilton-Gordon commissioned a leading English architect, John Loughborough Pearson, to design a memorial chapel for his wife.
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Coordinates:   35°53'24"N   14°29'51"E
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