Shandong Road Cemetary - Shanghai

Shandong-Road Foreign Cemetery was located between Jiujiang Road and Hankou Road. In 1844, Shanghai foreigners bought two pieces of lands for cemeteries, but it was not successful. Later it was changed for another larger area as cemetery. The tombs here were for foreign sailors who died in Shanghai. Due to most of dead sailors’ sea-burial, the tomb-users were few, while in the earlier time, sailors from Ningbo of Zhejiang province were too many, so this cemetery nearly was the made for sailors from Ningbo. Hence it was also called Ningbo Cemetery. Since 1866, it gradually became the center of the dead-burial. But this cemetery was located in downtown and harmful for urban sanitation and urban environment. The stricter limits were set for man-burial. In 1880, Ningbo believers of British Protestant Episcopal Church established Ningbo Bethel and in 1902 it was rebuilt to be the St.Paul Church. After 1949, the churches and cemeteries were both swept away. In 1980s, it was re-established as Huangpu Stadium.