The Cemetery of Foreigners in Guayaquil, Ecuador, was built in 1870 to house deceased people from other countries who accidentally died in that city and no one claimed their bodies, usually they were people of non-Catholic religion. It is located on a hill with 65 steps, 200 meters from the General Cemetery of Guayaquil, and has 190 tombs.
What motivated its creation was the death in 1866 of Edwar St. John Neal, business manager of the British Empire, when his body was moved to the cemetery of the city officials of the Catholic Church prevented him from being buried because Neal was a Protestant . In those times the cemetery was administered by the Catholic Church for the exclusive use of its parishioners. The incident caused that in 1870 the Cemetery of the Protestants was constructed, years later designated like Cemetery of the Foreigners.
Beginning with the Liberal Revolution of Ecuador in 1905, which established secularism in the republic, the administration of the Foreigners Cemetery passed into the hands of the Junta de Beneficencia de Guayaquil - a private philanthropic organization related to secularism - as well as the General Cemetery of Guayaquil. In 1945 its administration was delegated to foreign consuls residing in Guayaquil but soon it was left in a state of neglect. In 1960, the Charity Board ceded the administration of the Foreigners Cemetery to the Ecuatoriano-Alemán Cultural Center, an organization that represents the German colony of Ecuador in Guayaquil. In 2012 the municipality of the city assumed the administration of the place. Bibliography
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