Kwong Tong Cemetery, Kuala Lumpur

Kwong Tong Cemetery, Kuala Lumpur (11 July, 2016)


Kwong Tong Cemetery is a huge Chinese cemetery in Kuala Lumpur. Established in the late 19th century, it is still the largest and oldest cemetery in Kuala Lumpur. The Kwong Tong Cemetery covers an area of 333 acres. A number of roads pass right through it including Jalan Dewan Bahasa, Jalan Istana, Jalan Kerayong and Lorong Syed Putra Kiri. On the southeastern part of the cemetery is Jalan Lapangan Terbang, which separates it from the former Sungai Besi Airbase, which is in the process of being developed as Bandar Malaysia.

Within the cemetery area is funerary complex that includes funeral parlours, crematorium and columbariums. Some of the famous historic figures in the history of Kuala Lumpur have their final resting place here, among them Kapitan Cina Yap Ah Loy and Kapitan Cina Yap Kwan Seng.

There are a number of memorials within the grounds of the Kwong Tong Cemetery, including the Nanyang Volunteers Memorial, to commemorate 3,200 Overseas Chinese who took part on the Chinese side against the Japanese during the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945), and the Japanese War Memorial, which is a memorial at the site of a mass grave to whose who perished in during the Japanese Occupation. They include some one thousand victims of Japanese atrocity that were exhumed from the Tomb of War Victims of the Compatriots of the Republic of China (Nanjing Massacre Memorial Hall) and reburied there.

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Kwong Tong Cemetery

Kwong Tong Cemetery, Kuala Lumpur

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