Introduction to the cemetery: The Old Christian Cemetery was established by the British East India Company in 1821 because the Catholic Church did not want to see pagans buried within the city walls, and the Chinese did not allow foreigners to be buried north of the border gate. place, so traders from the United Kingdom, the United States and Nordic countries had no choice but to bury their ancestors secretly between the city walls and the gates. When the wife of Morrison, a Protestant missionary who had been working in Macau for a long time, passed away, he asked the East India Company to apply to the Macao and Portuguese authorities to turn the current site into a cemetery. Later, all foreigners could rest here, and the remains originally buried elsewhere were also moved here. In 1857, the city hall prohibited the burial of any dead in the city, so the cemetery was closed and has been preserved intact to this day.