Heritage record
Gora Qabristan (Peshawar)
Khyber PakhtunkhwaCemeteryProtected
A Christian cemetery site, graves of civil administrators, businessmen, medical staff, clergy of the colonial occupying forces are buried here. Engraving on stone and marble, the story unfolds in a poignant and vivid manner, the soldiers who died in action in the confrontations with Afghanistan and the Tribal people. The Christian cemetery in Peshawar or the Gora Qabristan is the surviving cemetery of the Victorian Era. Out of the four large cemeteries at Peshawar originally, now only two of them survived.
- Record ID
- 4609
- Province / territory
- Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
- District
- Peshawar
- Typology
- Monument
- Subtype
- Cemetery
- Period
- Historic
- Legal status
- Not Protected — UNVERIFIED; no statute or notification cited
- Coordinates
- 34.00745, 71.52890 — source-provided, not field-verified
- Verification status
- source_record; automatically_standardized; verification_required
- Sources
- Dani, Ahmed Hassan. (1995). Peshawar: Historic City of the Frontier. Sang-e-Meel Publications, Lahore.
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