Submitted by Admin on Mon, 02/16/2015 - 02:42 Current condition In use Date completed 1 Jan 1904 (Day & Month are approximate.) Tags cemetery Log in or register to post comments Photos that show this Place 1930s c.1958 1950s Comments New Kowloon Cemetery No. 1 New Kowloon Cemetery No. 1 Submitted by wongm on Sun, 2015-02-15 13:59. This is the New Kowloon Cemetery No. 1, also known as the Chinese Christian Cemetery, which opened in 1904. Log in or register to post comments New Kowloon Cemetery No. 1 Notes from Tim Ko in A Review of Development of Cemeteries in Hong Kong: 1841-1950 [In 1904], another Chinese Christian Cemetery was authorized 'on the hillside about 200 feet to the North of Kowloon Walled City, measuring, on the North 208'9,' on the East 208'9' and on the West 208'9,' and defined by boundary stones.'[86] This cemetery still exists today as the oldest surviving cemetery on the Kowloon Peninsula. It has not only survived, but was actually extended in 1947,[87] despite the vigorous developments that Kowioon would have to experience in the 20* century.[88] This cemetery was renamed as New Kowioon Cemetery No. 1 in 1925.[89] Log in or register to post comments
New Kowloon Cemetery No. 1 New Kowloon Cemetery No. 1 Submitted by wongm on Sun, 2015-02-15 13:59. This is the New Kowloon Cemetery No. 1, also known as the Chinese Christian Cemetery, which opened in 1904. Log in or register to post comments
New Kowloon Cemetery No. 1 Notes from Tim Ko in A Review of Development of Cemeteries in Hong Kong: 1841-1950 [In 1904], another Chinese Christian Cemetery was authorized 'on the hillside about 200 feet to the North of Kowloon Walled City, measuring, on the North 208'9,' on the East 208'9' and on the West 208'9,' and defined by boundary stones.'[86] This cemetery still exists today as the oldest surviving cemetery on the Kowloon Peninsula. It has not only survived, but was actually extended in 1947,[87] despite the vigorous developments that Kowioon would have to experience in the 20* century.[88] This cemetery was renamed as New Kowioon Cemetery No. 1 in 1925.[89] Log in or register to post comments
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New Kowloon Cemetery No. 1
New Kowloon Cemetery No. 1
Submitted by wongm on Sun, 2015-02-15 13:59.
This is the New Kowloon Cemetery No. 1, also known as the Chinese Christian Cemetery, which opened in 1904.
New Kowloon Cemetery No. 1
Notes from Tim Ko in A Review of Development of Cemeteries in Hong Kong: 1841-1950
[In 1904], another Chinese Christian Cemetery was authorized
'on the hillside about 200 feet to the North of Kowloon Walled City,
measuring, on the North 208'9,' on the East 208'9' and on the West
208'9,' and defined by boundary stones.'[86] This cemetery still exists
today as the oldest surviving cemetery on the Kowloon Peninsula. It
has not only survived, but was actually extended in 1947,[87] despite the
vigorous developments that Kowioon would have to experience in the
20* century.[88] This cemetery was renamed as New Kowioon Cemetery
No. 1 in 1925.[89]