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The Dutch Cemetery in Fort Kochi, the oldest European cemetery in India, was reopened recently after extensive renovation work. The 284-year-old cemetery is considered to be a valuable source of information of hundreds on Europeans, both the Dutch and the English, who died in India on while business for their colonial empires.

Consecrated in 1724 by local VOC officials, the cemetery has 104 tombs. The renovation work was carried out with the help of the Dutch Embassy in India.

As part of the renovation project, the tombs and markers were cleaned and restored and flowers planted around them. The entire graveyard was landscaped and its surrounding wall strengthened. The work was undertaken by local contractors and supervised by Indian archeologists

An unique feature of the tombs is that none of them display a cross, unlike modern tombs in the area which has a Christian presence. Both the big and small tombs resemble the Dutch architecture of the eighteenth-century. The inscriptions use an archaic Dutch text.


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