Death
Date of death |
31. 8. 1688 |
Cemetery |
Bunhill Fields Burial Ground, London, England |
GPS coordinates of the cemetery |
Approximate GPS coordinates of the grave are 51.523887, -0.088301. It is close to the small office in the middle of the cemetery. |
Details:
51.523394, -0.088362
Summary from Wikipedia
Bunyan came from the village of Elstow, near Bedford. He had some schooling and, at the age of sixteen, joined the Parliamentary Army at Newport Pagnell during the first stage of the English Civil War. After three years in the army, he returned to Elstow and took up the trade of tinker, which he had learned from his father. He became interested in religion after his marriage, attending first the parish church and then joining the Bedford Meeting, a nonconformist group in St John's church Bedford, and later became a preacher. After the restoration of the monarchy, when the freedom of nonconform ...
Author of contribution: Janez, published 14. 2. 2017