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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.
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Mausoleum of Kunhi Koya Thangal Keramat Habib Noh The Keramat Iskandar Shah at Fort Canning site The mausoleum of Kunhi Koya Thangal, an Indian Muslim scholar from the Malabar , is located in the grounds of the Masjid Malabar [ 3 ]
This is a list of types of funerary monument, a physical structure that commemorates a deceased person or a group, in the latter case usually those whose deaths occurred at the same time or in similar circumstances.
An architectural niche that houses a body, as in a catacomb, hypogeum, mausoleum or other place of entombment. Loggia A gallery formed by a colonnade open on one or more sides. The space is often located on an upper floor of a building overlooking an open court or garden. Lunette A half-moon shaped space, either masonry or void.
A mausoleum space, feet from Marilyn Monroe‘s final resting place, is available at Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park and Mortuary in Los Angeles, and will be up for grabs at auction ...
It is generally any structurally enclosed interment space or burial chamber, of varying sizes. Placing a corpse into a tomb can be called immurement, although this word mainly means entombing people alive, and is a method of final disposition, as an alternative to cremation or burial.
In 2007, Donald Trump filed plans to build a 19-foot-high stone mausoleum with four obelisks on his golf course in New Jersey.