Bangkok’s Protestant Cemetery

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00:00In central Bangkok on Jalen Gung Road, near Banglak District, there is the Protestant Cemetery.

00:06At the beach in the 19th century, it was created as a resting place for Bangkok's growing foreign Protestant community.

00:13At the time when the city was opening up to international trade and diplomacy.

00:17Before the cemetery exited, foreign Protestants had no formal burial in Bangkok.

00:22The community needed a proper place to honor their death according to their faith.

00:27Separate from the Buddhist cemeteries, the cemetery holds missionaries, diplomats, doctors, traders and their families,

00:34people from Europe and America who came to live and work in Bangkok.

00:38For example, American missionary Dan Beach Bradley introduced modern medicine and printing to Siam.

00:44European-style headstones and monuments stand amid tropical trees.

00:48Beyond individual stories, the cemetery reflects Bangkok's wider global connections during the 19th and early 20th centuries.

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