Old Christian Cemetery, Abbottabad

The Old Christian Cemetery, locally referred to as the Gora Qabristan (Urdu: گورا قبرستان, lit.

[1] The cemetery was established in 1853[2] when the modern city of Abbottabad was founded by James Abbott, a British military officer and administrator.

It remained the main Christian cemetery in the town and for the nearby Galyat hill tracts,[3] and was later attached to St. Luke's Church when it was completed in 1864.

Henry Fisher Corbyn, of the Bengal Ecclesiastical Establishment, who spent long years here as Vicar, and who had previously served in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, and established a 'charitable home' there at Ross Island (Andaman)[10] is also buried here.

[11] Since Partition and Independence of Pakistan in 1947, the Old Christian Cemetery has suffered considerable neglect, due to various financial constraints upon the Church of Pakistan[12] and maybe around 70–80 of the older graves dating back prior to 1947, still survive and can be properly verified.