Bangkok Protestant Cemetery
The Bangkok Protestant Cemetery is a cemetery catering mainly to the foreign community in Bangkok. To date, the cemetery has over 1800 interments (around 1100 names are legible on extant gravestones), and it is still accepting burials on a limited basis. The burial register is kept by Christ Church Bangkok (11 Convent Road).
| Bangkok Protestant Cemetery | |
|---|---|
A view of the Bangkok Protestant Cemetery looking east | |
| Details | |
| Established | 1853 |
| Location | Soi 72/5, Charoen Krung Road, Bangkok |
| Country | Thailand |
| Coordinates | 13°42′22″N 100°30′20″E |
| Type | For resident Protestant Christian foreigners of Thailand |
| Style | Protestant cemetery |
| No. of graves | 1,800 |
| Find a Grave | Bangkok Protestant Cemetery |
There are also a number of Jewish graves here, since before 1997 there was no other place in the city for the small Jewish community to bury their dead. This changed with the opening of the Jewish Cemetery, in a separate property adjacent to this cemetery.
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