Birth Year
1905
Birth Month
8
Birth Day
29
Death Year
1941
Death Month
1
Death Day
22
Description
Right Section Row 4 Grave 11
Death Year
1921
Death Month
1
Death Day
27
Description
Right Section Row 1 Grave 4 Text: justus et tenax propisiti vir
Birth Year
1912
Birth Month
6
Birth Day
6
Death Year
1936
Death Month
8
Death Day
27
Description
Right Section Row 2 Grave 5
Birth Year
1936
Birth Month
2
Birth Day
27
Death Year
1936
Death Month
8
Death Day
23
Description
Right Section Row 1 Grave 25
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