Birth Year
1937
Birth Month
4
Birth Day
8
Death Year
2000
Death Month
6
Death Day
20
Birth Year
1880
Death Year
1934
Death Month
4
Death Day
12
Description
Right Section Row 3 Grave 4
Birth Year
1923
Birth Month
8
Birth Day
27
Death Year
1959
Death Month
8
Death Day
21
Description
Right Section Row 9 Grave 24
Birth Year
1929
Birth Month
10
Birth Day
16
Death Year
1929
Death Month
10
Death Day
19
Description
Right Section Row 4 Grave 9
Birth Year
1881
Death Year
1949
Description
Right Section Row 2 Grave 22 Text: Missionary nurse. Beloved wife of Rolla E. Hoffman M.D. "Pure religion...
Birth Year
1885
Death Year
1941
Description
Right Section Row 3 Grave 7 Text: In dankbarem Gedenken
Birth Year
1928
Birth Month
2
Birth Day
24
Death Year
1929
Death Month
11
Death Day
30
Description
Right Section Row 6 Grave 22
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