List of cemeteries in Hong Kong

The following is a list of cemeteries in Hong Kong.

This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (February 2011)

Hong Kong Island

  • Aberdeen Chinese Permanent Cemetery (BMCPC)
  • Carmelite Cemetery
  • Chiu Yuen Cemetery, Mount Davis – Private cemetery of Hotung clan
  • Hong Kong Chinese Christian Churches Union Pok Fu Lam Road Cemetery (香港華人基督教聯會薄扶林道墳場)
  • Kai Lung Wan Cemetery [zh] (雞籠灣墳場) - Former cemetery. Wah Fu Estate was built at this location.
  • Mount Caroline Cemetery (FEHD)
  • Stanley Prison Cemetery (FEHD). Venue managed by the Correctional Services Department.[1]
  • Stanley Military Cemetery – Not only one of the major military cemeteries of Hong Kong, but also one of the last battlefields of Hong Kong Defence, 1941

Cape Collinson

Happy Valley

  • Happy Valley Jewish Cemetery c. 1855 and purchased by Sasson family
  • Happy Valley Muslim Cemetery
  • Hindu Cemetery – c. 1880s and includes a temple building
  • Hong Kong Cemetery (FEHD) – Established in 1845. The early western cemetery in the early colonial era of Hong Kong
  • Hong Kong Parsee Cemetery – c. 1852
  • St. Michael's Catholic Cemetery

Kowloon and New Kowloon

  • Chinese Christian Cemetery – Kowloon City District
  • Hau Pui Loong Cemetery. Former cemetery
  • New Kowloon Cemetery No. 8 (Diamond Hill Urn Cemetery) (FEHD) - Diamond Hill. Officially designated in 1939, but may have been in use earlier. It was closed in 1961.[2]
  • St. Raphael's Catholic Cemetery – Cheung Sha Wan

New Territories

Islands District

  • Cheung Chau Catholic Cemetery (長洲天主教墳場)
  • Cheung Chau Cemetery (FEHD)
  • Mui Wo Lai Chi Yuen Cemetery (FEHD)
  • Tai O Cemetery (FEHD)

See also

References

  1. ^ "Public Cemeteries Detail. Stanley Prison Cemetery". Food and Environmental Hygiene Department.
  2. ^ * Teather, Elizabeth Kenworthy (March 1998). "Themes from Complex Landscapes: Chinese Cemeteries and Columbaria in Urban Hong Kong". Australian Geographical Studies. 36 (1): 21–36. doi:10.1111/1467-8470.00037. ISSN 0004-9190.
  3. ^ "政府錦田南建屋 27公頃農地消失". 明報教育網 (in Traditional Chinese). Retrieved 2023-01-22.
  4. ^ "將領古墳地擬建公營屋". 明報教育網 (in Traditional Chinese). Retrieved 2023-01-22.

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