Lower Circular Road Christian Cemetery

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Lower Circular Road Christian Cemetery is a historic colonial-era burial ground in Kolkata, India, known for its European-style tombs and graves of notable British and Indian Christian figures.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf cemetery
historic site
adjacentTo A.J.C. Bose Road
alsoKnownAs A.J.C. Bose Road Cemetery
Lower Circular Road Cemetery
associatedWith Anglo-Indian community
Bengali Christian community
British Raj
linked to: British India
category British colonial architecture in India
Cemeteries in Kolkata
Christian cemeteries in India
country India
denomination Protestant
foundedInPeriod British colonial period
hasFeature family vaults
marble monuments
ornate tombstones
tree-lined avenues
hasGraveOf Alexander Duff
Henry Derozio
Michael Madhusudan Dutt
Sir William Jones
other British officials
hasLanguageOfInscriptions Bengali
English
Latin
hasTypeOfBurials family plots
individual graves
memorial monuments
heritage colonial-era burial ground
heritageStatus historic cemetery of Kolkata
knownFor 19th-century funerary architecture
European-style tombs
graves of British colonial officials
graves of Indian Christian figures
locatedIn Kolkata
linked to: Calcutta

Lower Circular Road
West Bengal
central Kolkata
linked to: Central Kolkata
managedBy Church of North India
operatedBy Diocese of Calcutta
region South Asia
religion Christianity
urbanContext urban cemetery
usedFor Christian funerary rites
burial

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Lower Circular Road Cemetery, Calcutta alsoKnownAs Lower Circular Road Christian Cemetery
Lower Circular Road Cemetery, Calcutta alsoKnownAs Lower Circular Road Burial Ground
linked to: Lower Circular Road Christian Cemetery
Lower Circular Road Christian Cemetery alsoKnownAs Lower Circular Road Cemetery
linked to: Lower Circular Road Christian Cemetery