Mausoleum

Mausoleum in Brooklyn of a man who loved Ancient Egypt

A typical mausoleum

A mausoleum is a building used to store the remains of people who have died. Instead of being buried in soil, like in a cemetery, they are placed in chambers behind walls, or in a vault under the floor. The word came from the name of an ancient king.

Lenin's Mausoleum

Soviet leader Lenin is a mausoleum. In 1953, Joseph Stalin was buried next to him but his body was removed during destalinization.

Examples

• Sun Yat-sen's Tomb in Nanjing, China
• The Taj Mahal
• The Great Pyramids
• Grant's Tomb

Mausoleum Media

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  Model of the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus (near modern-day Bodrum in Turkey), the grave of King Mausolus, the Persian satrap of Caria from which the word mausoleum was derived.

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  The Taj Mahal in Agra, India, a UNESCO World Heritage Site

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  Anıtkabir is the mausoleum of Atatürk, leader of the Turkish National Movement during the Turkish War of Independence, the founder and first President of the Republic of Turkey. It attracts around 3.5 million tourists yearly.

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  The Thalmayer mausoleum one, of the many destroyed mausoleums (Hungary, Budapest, Fiume Road Graveyard)

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  Royal Mausoleum of Mauretania (Tipaza)

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  Madghacen, a royal Numidian mausoleum (Batna)

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  Frenda Jedars (Frenda)

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  The tomb of Massinissa (El Khroub)

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  Mausoleum of Sidi Abderrahmane Et-Thaalibi (Algiers)

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  Anıtkabir, the mausoleum of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk in Ankara, Turkey