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Short documentary Nagapattinam
Gravity Architecture and Engineering, Coimbatore, made a short documentary on the restoration of two Dutch tombs on the Karikop Cemetery in Nagapattinam, India. Including an interview with the restoration architect involved, Sakthi Murugan.
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SharedCemeteries.net launch
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17 December 2020
SharedCemeteries.net A portal about shared funerary heritage worldwide
The Dutch Dodenakkers.nl Foundation launches the bilingual website SharedCemeteries.net (https://sharedcemeteries.net) about funerary heritage in former Dutch colonies, posts and fortifications w...
Burial Grounds over Borders: online lectures ICOMOS
Does conserving of these burial grounds over borders requires commitment from both Dutch and local stakeholders? And how have the meanings given to these burial grounds changed over the time?
We look forward to discuss this topic with our four speakers: René ten Dam, Leon Bok, Johan Roozer an...
India - Nagapattinam restoration
In 2014 Hans Schiebroek started funding on the restoration on the Karikop cemetery in the city of Nagapattinam in Tamil Nadu, India. In 2017 the Dutch Dodenakkers Foundation (stichting Dodenakkers.nl) and the Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands (RCE) were asked by the Prins Bernard Cultuur F...
Suriname - Historic Cemeteries platform launched
PARAMARIBO - Many old cemeteries have been neglected or overgrown. The realization that there is historical value is still insufficient when looking at how this funerary heritage is handled. A lot of money is needed for the maintenance of old cemeteries.
The Platform Historical Cemeteries was set u...
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Shared Cemeteries is all about (former Dutch) funerary heritage all over the world. The website is a non-profit collaboration between organizations, institutions and researchers from different countries involved in funerary heritage with a Dutch background. These can be historical cemeteries, churches as well as individual grave monuments. Shared Cemeteries is 'work in progress' and committed to share knowledge and information.
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Suriname
Brief history of the Orange garden
Initially, the dead were buried in and near Fort Zeelandia, especially the senior officers and civil servants. With the arrival of a middle class, there was also a need for a suitable church and a cem...
Where are the cemeteries of the enslaved?
Until the end of the nineteenth century, Suriname had hardly any infrastructure outside the plantations and Paramaribo. It was only found in that part of the colony that had been cultivated and where ...
The first inhabitants of Suriname
The history of cemeteries and churchyards in Paramaribo, Suriname is a complex and interesting history. Yet that history does not begin with the arrival of the Europeans. Suriname has known various pr...
Japan
Hendrik Duurkoop’s gravestone
The gravestone of Hendrik Duurkoop in the Dutch Cemetery at Goshinji temple in Nagasaki has long been famous as the oldest surviving gravestone in Japan belonging to a European.[1] Duurkoop, who divid...
Guido Hermann Fridolin Verbeek
In 2003, Ms Hisayo Murase published the book 'Verbeck of Japan'. The book is a translation in Japanese of the biography of Guido Hermann Fridolin Verbeek written by W.E. Griffis in 1901 and provided w...
Buried at the other side of the bay (from 1655)
In October 1654 the Dutch were finally given permission to bury their dead on land instead of the sea, but it still took almost a year before the first body was actually interred in a grave.
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