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 NERFINISHED
alsoKnownAs A.J.C. Bose Road Cemetery NERFINISHED
Lower Circular Road Cemetery NERFINISHED
associatedWith Anglo-Indian community
Bengali Christian community
British Raj NERFINISHED
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 NERFINISHED
Henry Derozio NERFINISHED
Michael Madhusudan Dutt NERFINISHED
Sir William Jones NERFINISHED
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 Calcutta
surface form: Kolkata

Lower Circular Road NERFINISHED
West Bengal
central Kolkata NERFINISHED
managedBy Church of North India NERFINISHED
operatedBy Diocese of Calcutta NERFINISHED
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 Christian Cemetery
this entity surface form: Lower Circular Road Burial Ground