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Saint John's Church, Chundikuli

Memorials	:	1
Location	:	Jaffna, Jaffna District, Sri Lanka
Description	:	The church stands on the site of a Portuguese Church, replaced in 1860. "There were inside the church a good many past Dutch administrators, their wives and children, lying buried. Their crumbling bones were taken up...with all care, and re-interred in the present St. John's Church burial ground." Source: J. Penry Lewis, C.M.G.: List of Inscriptions on Tombstones and Monuments in Ceylon of Historical or Local Interest with an Obituary of Persons Uncommemorated, Colombo: H. C. Cottle, Government Printer, 1913, p. 231.	The church stands on the site of a Portuguese Church, replaced in 1860. "There were inside the church a good many past Dutch administrators, their wives and children, lying buried. Their crumbling bones were taken up...with all care, and re-interred in the present St. John's Church burial ground." Source: J. Penry Lewis, C.M.G.: List of Inscriptions on Tombstones and Monuments in Ceylon of Historical or Local Interest with an Obituary of Persons Uncommemorated, Colombo: H. C. Cottle, Government Printer, 1913, p. 231.

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1 memorials

1. Old Burial Ground, Point Pedro
Jaffna District, Sri Lanka

2. Batticotta Church Cemetery
Jaffna District, Sri Lanka

3. Compound of the Resthouse Kayts
Jaffna District, Sri Lanka

4. Chundikuli Churchyard
Jaffna, Jaffna District, Sri Lanka

5. Dutch Church
Jaffna, Jaffna District, Sri Lanka

6. Nellore Churchyard
Jaffna, Jaffna District, Sri Lanka

7. Pettah Cemetery
Jaffna, Jaffna District, Sri Lanka

8. Christ Church, Pettah
Jaffna, Jaffna District, Sri Lanka

9. Saint Peter's Wesleyan Chapel, Pettah
Jaffna, Jaffna District, Sri Lanka

10. Saint Mary's Cathedral
Jaffna, Jaffna District, Sri Lanka

11. Saint Peter's Wesleyan Chapel Graveyard
Jaffna, Jaffna District, Sri Lanka

12. St Mary's Burial Grounds
Jaffna, Jaffna District, Sri Lanka

13. American Mission Cemetery
Tellippalai, Jaffna District, Sri Lanka