New Julfa Armenian Cemetery
New Julfa Armenian Cemetery is a historical cemetery near New Julfa Armenian quarter of Isfahan, Iran.
International Interments
Among those interred here are:- William Bell – British factor of East India Company in Isfahan.
- Johann Rudolf Stadler – Swiss watchmaker of Shah Safi who killed a man who had entered his house. He chose to be executed instead of conversion to Islam and died as a Christian martyr.
- Alexander de Rhodes – French Jesuit missionary who had a lasting impact on Christianity in Viet Nam
- Francis Vernon – English traveller
- Tadeusz Mironowicz – the legate of the King of Poland in Safavid court of Persia
- Members of De l'Estoile family
- Jacques Rousseau – Genevan watchmaker and diplomat
- Isidore Borowsky – general in Qajar Iran of Polish origin.
- Xavier Hommaire de Hell – French geographer, engineer and traveller
- Edward Henry Philip Glover – born in Lymington, Hampshire, England – Was founder of the Telegraph Office at Isfahan
- Ernst Hoeltzer – German engineer and photographer
- Hovhannes Abkarian – musician
- Dr. Leslie Griffiths – Australian missionary of Church Mission Society who was killed in Lorestan along with his 10-year-old son Ian and the British vice-consul in Isfahan, Robert Christopher Skipworth Harris searching for the remains of a crashed military aircraft of Allied Forces in the mountains of Lorestan.
- Ernst Jakob Christoffel – German Evangelical pastor who founded Christian Blind Mission and built homes for blind children, orphans, physically disabled, and deaf persons in Turkey and Iran.
- Mateos Karakhanian – photographer
- Yesayi Shahijanian – painter
- Hrand Ghoukasian – physician and translator
- Yervand Nahapetian – painter
- Levon Minassian – scholar
- Zaven Ghoukasian – film director and critic
Polish Section
During World War II, hundreds of Polish orphans passed through Isfahan from Soviet Union en route to the Persian Gulf ports for departure to Africa or to New Zealand. Some of them lived in Isfahan from the beginning until the end of the war, other stayed there shortly.The graves of those Polish, who did not succeed in coming back home, situated on a separate section at the eastern border of the cemetery, at main alley dividing the cemetery and is surrounded by a rather low wall. At its right border, there are two rows of individual graves. The section includes 18 graves altogether. The principal element of the Polish plot is a central granite monument with Piast Eagle, engraved on it. The eagle is crowned and it has an image of Czestochowa Holy Mother on its chest. It is located near the grave of Tadeusz Mironowicz.