Type: Monument - Cemetery
Province: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
District: Peshawar
Period: Historic
Relative Chronology: 1857 - 1947 CE
Description: A Christian cemetery site, graves of civil administrators, businessmen, medical staff, clergy of the colonial occupying forces are buried here. Engraving on stone and marble, the story unfolds in a poignant and vivid manner, the soldiers who died in action in the confrontations with Afghanistan and the Tribal people. The Christian cemetery in Peshawar or the Gora Qabristan is the surviving cemetery of the Victorian Era. Out of the four large cemeteries at Peshawar originally, now only two of them survived.
Latitude: 34.007452472
Longitude: 71.528898917
Ownership: Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Legal Status: Not Protected
Title of Publication: Peshawar: Historic City of the Frontier
Published In: Sang-e-Meel Publications, Lahore
Year of Publication: 1995
Bibliography/Reference: Dani, Ahmed Hassan
