Macau Old Protestant Cemetery

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Macau Protestant Cemetery

The Old Protestant Cemetery of Macau was founded in 1821 by the British East India Company and has been listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site as part of the Old City of Macau since 2005 .

As a Portuguese crown colony , Macau was part of the Roman Catholic Church, which prohibited the burial of Protestants within the city limits. Outside the city gates was Chinese territory, where foreign burials were also not tolerated. This meant that Protestant funerals were only possible at night and outside the city walls.

In 1821 the East India Company finally acquired a piece of land and reached a legal solution to the problem with the Portuguese authorities. From this point on there was a cemetery for the dead of the mostly Protestant British, North American and Northern European merchants. British, US, Dutch, Danish and German graves can be found in the cemetery. Captain Christian Johann Friedrich Ipland (born June 30, 1818 - October 5, 1857) died as the captain of the Apenrad ship Camilla in Macau and was buried in the cemetery. There are two gravestones with the following inscriptions: “Christian Johann Friedrich Ipland slumbers here. Born in Aabenraa , June 30th, 1818, died in Macao, October 5th, 1857. Your ashes rest gently, you tired wanderer. ”The second gravestone explains in German and below it in English why a second stone was erected:“ Die Widow sent this stone from Germany for fear that the first one would soon expire. Now both announce Christian Ipland's death in the distant land. "

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  1. ↑ Lindsey Ride: THE OLD PROTESTANT CEMETERY IN MACAO: A lecture delivered on May 7, 1962 . In: Journal of the Hong Kong Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society . tape 3 . Royal Asiatic Society, Hong Kong 1962, p. 13 .
  2. ^ Ou Nian Le: Old Protestant Cemetery: treasure house of Macao history. In: Gonçalo César de Sá (Ed.): Macao Magazine . No. 41 . Macau July 2017, p. 62-67 .
  3. ↑ Lindsay Ride, May Ride, Bernard Mellor (Ed.): An East India Company Cemetery: Protestant Burials in Macao. tape 1 . Hongkong University Press, Hongkong 1996, ISBN 978-962-209-384-3 , pp. 98 .
  4. ↑ Werner Meißner: Death in Macau The tombstones of the Old Protestant Cemetery on Macau are stone witnesses of the relations between China and the West. An excursion between graves on the trail of the colonial past. In: taz . No. 4049 . taz Verlags u. Vertriebs GmbH, Berlin July 3, 1993, p. 23-24 ( taz.de ).

Coordinates: 22 ° 11 '59.7 "  N , 113 ° 32'24.6"  E