Heritage record
Gora Qabristan (Lt. Heward Bagh)
Gilgit-BaltistanCemeteryProtected
In July 1870, during a journey to explore the Pamir plateau, a British explorer was allegedly murdered near Darkot pass in Ghizir (then a princely state). He was found dead under the shade of a tree. On 27 July 1870, his dead body was brought to Gilgit and buried in an orchard. With time the orchard received more burials and it became a Britishers burial place. With time the cemetery had different names: Hayward Garden, Christian Cemetery.
- Record ID
- 7899
- Province / territory
- Gilgit-Baltistan
- District
- Gilgit
- Typology
- Monument
- Subtype
- Cemetery
- Period
- Historic
- Legal status
- Not Protected — UNVERIFIED; no statute or notification cited
- Coordinates
- 35.92301, 74.30516 — source-provided, not field-verified
- Verification status
- source_record; automatically_standardized; verification_required
- Sources
- Anonymous. (Miscellaneous). Built Heritage of Gilgit Baltistan by Baltistan Culture and Development Foundation. Miscellaneous.
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