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For other uses, see Mausoleum (disambiguation).
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.[1]
The Taj Mahal in Agra, India, a UNESCO World Heritage Site
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.[2]
The Thalmayer mausoleum one, of the many destroyed mausoleums (Hungary, Budapest, Fiume Road Graveyard)

A mausoleum is an external free-standing building constructed as a monument enclosing the burial chamber of a deceased person or people. A mausoleum without the person's remains is called a cenotaph. A mausoleum may be considered a type of tomb, or the tomb may be considered to be within the mausoleum.

Overview

The word mausoleum (from the Ancient Greek: μαυσωλεῖον) derives from the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus (near modern-day Bodrum in Turkey), the grave of King Mausolus, the Persian satrap of Caria, whose large tomb was one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.[1]

Mausolea were historically, and still may be, large and impressive constructions for a deceased leader or other person of importance. However, smaller mausolea soon became popular with the gentry and nobility in many countries. In the Roman Empire, these were often in necropoles or along roadsides: the via Appia Antica retains the ruins of many private mausolea for kilometres outside Rome. When Christianity became dominant, mausolea were out of use.[3]

Later, mausolea became particularly popular in Europe and its colonies during the early modern and modern periods. A single mausoleum may be permanently sealed. A mausoleum encloses a burial chamber either wholly above ground or within a burial vault below the superstructure. This contains the body or bodies, probably within sarcophagi or interment niches. Modern mausolea may also act as columbaria (a type of mausoleum for cremated remains) with additional cinerary urn niches. Mausolea may be located in a cemetery, a churchyard or on private land.

In the United States, the term may be used for a burial vault below a larger facility, such as a church. The Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in Los Angeles, California, for example, has 6,000 sepulchral and cinerary urn spaces for interments in the lower level of the building. It is known as the "crypt mausoleum". In Europe, these underground vaults are sometimes called crypts or catacombs.

A chapel mausoleum or mausoleum chapel in a cemetery can be used for closed-casket funeral services prior to interments.[4][5]

Notable mausoleums

Main article: List of mausoleums

Africa

Algeria

  • Royal Mausoleum of Mauretania (Tipaza)
    Royal Mausoleum of Mauretania (Tipaza)
  • Madghacen, a royal Numidian mausoleum (Batna)
    Madghacen, a royal Numidian mausoleum (Batna)
  • Frenda Jedars (Frenda)
    Frenda Jedars (Frenda)
  • The tomb of Massinissa (El Khroub)
    The tomb of Massinissa (El Khroub)
  • Mausoleum of Sidi Abderrahmane Et-Thaalibi (Algiers)
    Mausoleum of Sidi Abderrahmane Et-Thaalibi (Algiers)

Others

Asia, Eastern, Southern, Central, and Southeast

Afghanistan

Bangladesh

China

India

Indonesia

Japan

Malaysia

Pakistan

Philippines

Taiwan

Others

Asia, western

Europe

See also: Burial sites of European monarchs and consorts

South America

Argentina

Bolivia

Brazil

Chile

Colombia

Ecuador

Paraguay

Peru

Uruguay

Venezuela

North America

Canada

Cuba

Dominican Republic

El Salvador

Guatemala

Haiti

Mexico

Nicaragua

Panama

United States

Oceania

See also

Notes

  1. ^ The plurals mausoleums and mausolea are both used in English, although mausoleums is more common.

Footnotes

  1. ^ a b Toms, J. Mason (Winter 2019). "Arkansas Listings in the National Register of Historic Places: The Community Mausoleums of Cecil E. Bryan". Arkansas Historical Quarterly. 78 (4): 423–431. ISSN 0004-1823.
  2. ^ "Anıtkabir'de yabancı ziyaretçi rekoru kırıldı". www.sozcu.com.tr (in Turkish). Retrieved 2022-05-12.
  3. ^ Paul Veyne, in A History of Private Life: I. From Pagan Rome to Byzantium, Veyne, ed. (Harvard University Press) 1987:416.
  4. ^ https://www.legacy.com/advice/the-pros-and-cons-of-a-mausoleum/
  5. ^ https://www.mausoleums.com/inside-the-chapel-mausoleum/
  6. ^ al-Qummi, Ja'far ibn Qūlawayh (2008). Kāmil al-Ziyārāt. trans. Sayyid Mohsen al-Husaini al-Mīlāni. Shiabooks.ca Press. p. 63.
  7. ^ https://ecc.caedm.ca/our-cemeteries-holy-cross/
  8. ^ "HistoricPlaces.ca - HistoricPlaces.ca". www.historicplaces.ca. Retrieved 2024-11-15.
  9. ^ "The crypts and mausoleums of Mount Royal Cemetery - Mount Royal Commemorative Services". mountroyalcem.com. 2024-07-08. Retrieved 2024-11-15.
  10. ^ https://vancouver.ca/files/cov/mountain-view-self-guided-walk.pdf
  11. ^ https://www.cimetierenotredamedesneiges.ca/en/mausoleums
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