Birth Year
1898
Birth Month
11
Birth Day
2
Death Year
1942
Death Month
9
Death Day
14
Description
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Birth Year
1883
Death Year
1949
Description
Right Section Row 4 Grave 8 Text: Ingenieur aus Eggiwyl-Schweiz
Birth Year
1893
Birth Month
10
Birth Day
21
Death Year
1932
Death Month
3
Death Day
9
Description
Right Section Row 7 Grave 22
Birth Year
1885
Birth Month
6
Birth Day
16
Death Year
1944
Death Month
8
Death Day
31
Description
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The first Protestant Cemetery in Tehran was started in 1890 in the area of Akbarabad just south of Teheran. Because at that time nearly all Protestant Christians were foreigners the cemetery was set up under a committee of ambassadors from predominantly Protestant countries. As the city grew the cemetery became part of the city area.
Until the Iranian revolution the administration was done by American Presbyterian clergy. In 1995 the ambassadors asked the German Speaking Evangelical Congregation being the last international Protestant church in Teheran to take over this duty. Read More