In 1855, the young Dr. Louis André Ernest Cloquet, personal physician to Naser al-Din Shah Qajar, died and was buried in a field situated in the Tehran district of Doulab, close to the Armenian cemetery.

They had been released from Soviet captivity and were to set up the Polish Army of the East under General Władysław Anders.

Because of that, the Polish Embassy purchased half of the terrain of the cemetery and arranged the graves of those who had died in Tehran.

Eventually, their reasoning went, after forty years had passed, graves could be demolished and the site used for building purposes.

National communities represented in the Catholic Cemetery include: Germany, United States, England, Argentina, Armenia, Assyrians (Iran), Austria, Belgium, Spain, Estonia, France, Greece, Netherlands, Hungary, Iraq, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Yugoslavia, Latvia, Lebanon, Lithuania, Malaysia, New, Zealand, Pakistan, Philippines, Portugal, Russia, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, Czechoslovakia, Turkey.