Terre Rouge

Coordinates: 20 ° 8 ′  S , 57 ° 32 ′  E

Terre Rouge​

Mauritius

Terre Rouge is a place ("Village") in the north of Mauritius . It is part of the Pamplemousses district and administratively belongs to the Village Council Area (VCA) Terre Rouge. At the 2011 census, the place had 10,760 inhabitants.

The Bois Marchand Cemetery is located on the motorway towards Pamplemousses. The 400 arpents cemetery was laid out in 1866 to house the victims of a malaria epidemic. In the cemetery, a cenotaph in the form of an obelisk commemorates the victims of the cyclone in Mauritius in 1892 , which was inaugurated in the presence of Governor Hubert Jerningham . A similar memorial is located in Port Louis East Cemetery. There is also a grave from 1858 called dargah in the cemetery . Pir Jahangeer, who is venerated as a holy man, is buried.

On the other side of the highway is the Chinese minority cemetery.

The Shri Kisnamoorty Draupadi Amen Temple (also called Sinatambou Temple after the name of the builder) from 1845 is the oldest Hindu temple on the island.

The Terre Rouge State Secondary School and the Professor Hassan Raffa State Secondary School exist as secondary schools .

The Catholic Church of St. Joseph outside Terre-Rouge on the A4 towards Arsenal was consecrated in 1922. A previous church had already been located in the same place. This was destroyed in the cyclone in Mauritius in 1892 . The chapel Chapelle Notre-Dame-de-l'Espérance in Solitude belongs to the parish of St. Joseph.

literature

• Benjamin Moutou: Pamplemousses - Rivière du Rempart - Quatre siècles d'histoire , 2006, ISBN 978-99903-992-9-5 , SS 293-294

Web links

• Excavations on Bois Marchand

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Statistics Mauritius: Housing and population census 2011 , Volume II: Demographic and fertility characteristics , p. 71, statsmauritius.govmu.org (PDF)
2. ^ Page of the parish of St. Joseph
3. ^ Benjamin Moutou: Pamplemousses - Riviére du Rempart - Quatre siécles d'histoire, 2006, ISBN 978-99903-992-9-5 , p. 282