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The Birch Road Cemetery is a Christian Cemetery in Kuala Lumpur which lies just to the north of the Kwong Tong Chinese Cemetery and sits in the corner between Jalan Maharajalela and Jalan Dewan Bahasa.  

This property lies in a prime area of real estate and there has been talk of moving the graveyard to make room for further city development.

Birch Road originally ran from the small roundabout at the end of Petaling Street, now enlarged to Bulatan Merdeka, in front of the Chinese Assembly Hall, past Stadium Merdeka and Victoria Institution to the Edinburgh Circle, no longer a circle but a large junction with an underpass. Birch Road is now Jalan Maharajalela, named after the local Malay chief who was, ironically, involved in the killing of James W. Birch, a British Resident in Perak, in 1875.

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