Forming an evidence of Kochi’s connection with the Dutch is the Dutch cemetery at Fort Kochi. It was sanctified in the year 1724 and till date contains almost 104 epitaphs and tombs, containing authentic details of the Dutch and British people buried there. Seeing all this, visitors who come here are reminded of the foreigners who came to Kochi so as to expand their empires.

The St. Francis Church maintains the record of those who were buried here and the Church of South India (CSI) is who manages the cemetery. The tombs at this place are made out of granite and red laterite stones but do not have a cross. The inscriptions in each of the epitaph are in the Old Dutch script. No longer used, the last person to be buried here, according to the author TW Venn, was Captain Joseph Ethelbert Winckler, in the year 1913.

The cemetery is only opened on the request of the visitors.