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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.
The San Francisco Columbarium. A columbarium (/ ˌ k ɒ l əm ˈ b ɛər i. əm /; [1] pl. columbaria), also called a cinerarium, is a structure for the reverential and usually public storage of funerary urns holding cremated remains of the dead.
Floor plan of main building: the domed mausoleum is in the top left corner (6); the mosque/madrasa is in the middle (5); and the sabil is the bottom left corner (2). Qaytbay's complex contained numerous buildings over a relatively vast area, enclosed by the same wall, of which one gate, Bab al-Gindi, still remains to the south of the mausoleum.
A mausoleum is a building erected mainly as a tomb, taking its name from the Mausoleum of Mausolus at Halicarnassus. Stele is a term for erect stones that are often what are now called gravestones. Ship burials are mostly found in coastal Europe, while chariot burials are found widely across Eurasia.
The Vanderbilt Family Cemetery and Mausoleum is a private burial site adjacent to the Moravian Cemetery in the New Dorp neighborhood of Staten Island, New York City. It was designed by Richard Morris Hunt and Frederick Law Olmsted in the late 19th century, when the Vanderbilt family was the wealthiest in America.
The mausoleum has an area of 600 square metres. The mausoleum is located on the northeastern side. To the left of it is a well for ablutions, located inside a domed building constructed in the late 19th century. [1] [7] Inside the mausoleum, there are six rooms, each containing a tomb of a member of the Tabataba family. [7]
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Frogmore Mausoleum, on the private grounds of the Home Park, Windsor Castle, Berkshire Frogmore: ... Hunal tomb inside of Temple 16 in the Copán acropolis; [7]