Msida Bastions Cemetery 

Misda Bastion Historic Garden is one of the 19 properties managed by the National Trust of Malta,Din l-Art Helwa , an NGO non profit mainly involved in safeguarding Maltese heritage.  All the staff you see here are volunteers from many different nations and residing in Malta.
This site was chosen by the British and is one of the oldest Christian non Catholic cemeteries on the Maltese Islands. It was in use between 1806 and 1857, with very few burials occurring after that date and limited to existing family graves. The very last burial recorded was 1880. There are tombs everywhere in the Garden and it is enough to dig down a couple of inches to find a grave. The importance of the cemetery is that most of its monuments were built in the Neo-Classical style which was very common in the UK and US and in use in Malta until 1850.
You will see around you the ongoing restoration, which began in the early 1990s and is transforming the cemetery into a garden while preserving as many monuments as possible. 
More than 150 different species of plants and flowers are present in the Garden, including Olive trees, Dwarf palms, Judas trees, Carob trees, Aleppo pine trees and the national tree of Malta, which is the Sandarac Gum tree, called tal-Gharghar in Maltese.
The British came to Malta in 1800 to support the Maltese who had risen up against the FrenchNapoleonic forces after their short occupation of Malta from 1798 to 1800.
At the beginning, the British did not build any cemeteries in order to avoid disagreements with the Catholic Church, which was a very powerful organization, particularly after 270 years of rule by the Knights of Malta. Later, they set up cemeteries where these would not clash with any Church property - usually in abandoned or empty areas. This site was a bastion of the fortification of Floriana which was built in 1635 and named Saint Philip’s Bastion, and later on renamed Msida Bastion by the British. The bastion was useless for military purposes at that time but perfect for a British cemetery, being outside Floriana’s walls and far from any other Catholic premises. 
Unfortunately, after the last burial in 1880, Msida Bastion cemetery gradually became abandoned and neglected, open to looters and tomb raiders. All kinds of items were stolen or removed: statues, whole monuments, urns, marble features. 
However, a survey was carried out in 1930 by Charles Zammit from the Valletta Museums and other research undertaken by Reginald Kirkpatrick in the 1980s and Andy Welsh in the 1990s. Thanks to Zammit a map showing 782 tombs was drawn up but, due to the loss of original records and bombing during the Second World War, the list of names is constantly being updated from ongoingresearch.
The neo-Classical designs prevalent in the cemetery arose from the desire to copy Roman, Greek and also Egyptian architecture re-creating the style of these ancient civilizations. Pyramids, sarcophagi, pillars, plinths, columns and obelisks can be seen in the cemetery often with engraved Greco-Romano, Egyptian, Freemason, Christian or mystic symbols.