Flimkien Għal Ambjent Aħjar is organising a guided tour of Ta’ Braxia Cemetery, Ħamrun, led by architect Conrad Thake and Janica Buhagiar, tomorrow at 10am.

Designed and built during the time of Governor Sir William Reid to be a place of rest for all “denominations without distinction of creed” to meet the needs of the increasingly diverse number of non-Catholics needing interment in Malta, the cemetery created the unprecedented furore that required all the diplomacy the British administration could muster to avoid a head-on clash with Malta’s conservative religious establishment.

In it are buried Russian emigrées fleeing the Russian Revolution, Greek Orthodox, Jews, Anglicans, Methodists, Baptists and Calvanists.

The cemetery’s chapel is the only building built in Malta by the eminent 19th-century British architect John Loughborough Pearson.

The tour of Ta’ Braxia Cemetery will be held tomorrow, starting at 10am at its entrance. For tickets, visit  https://ticketengine.faa.org.mt, or http://faa.org.mt .