List of mausolea

List of mausolea

:"For cemeteries containing multiple notable mausolea, see also List of famous cemeteries".This is a list of mausolea around the world.

Afghanistan



Azerbaijan

*Pir-Hussein Mausoleum
*Nizami Mausoleum, Ganja



Bangladesh



Bosnia and Herzegovina



Brunei



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Bulgaria



* Battenberg Mausoleum, Sofia (1897)
* Georgi Dimitrov Mausoleum, Sofia (1949; demolished in 1999)
* St George the Conqueror Chapel Mausoleum, Pleven (1907)
* Mausoleum of the Liberators, Razgrad
* Mausoleum of Antim I, Vidin (1934)

China



*Ancient Tombs at Longtou Mountain
**Mausoleum of Princess Zhenxiao
*Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor, Xi'an
*Mausoleum of Genghis Khan, Inner Mongolia
*Thirteen Imperial Mausoleums of Ming Dynasty Emperors, Beijing
*Ming Xiaoling Mausoleum, Nanjing
*Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum, Nanjing
*Zhao Mausoleum, Jiuzong mountain, Shaanxi province

Colombia

Cuba



Cyprus

*Hala Sultan Tekke

Czech Republic

*Mausoleum of Yugoslavian Soldiers in Olomouc

France

*Père Lachaise Cemetery contains many notable examples from the classic and Ancient Egyptian-inspired memorials to Napoleon's marshals through to the modernist such as Oscar Wilde's

Finland



Germany

* The Carstanjen Mausoleum, a Grecian rotunda at Haus Carstanjen, Bonn

India



Indonesia

*Imogiri, in Java where Sultan Agung's Mausoleum has extended into a complex of descendants graves.

Iran

Iran's Cultural Heritage Organization lists several hundred mausoleums in Iran. "(See Ferdowsi and Ziyarat articles for some examples)".



Iraq



Israel



*Joseph's Tomb

Italy

*Mausoleum of Augustus
*Mausoleum of Theodoric
*Castel Sant'Angelo, Hadrian mausoleum

Kazakhstan



Kyrgyzstan



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Mongolia

*Sükhbaatar's mausoleum, Ulan Bator, Mongolia

Morocco



North Korea

*Kumsusan Memorial Palace, Pyongyang, North Korea

Norway

* The Mausoleum located under the ground floor of Akershus Festning in Oslo contains the bodies of Olav V and Haakon VII of Norway. Queen Maud of Norway and Crown Princess Märtha of Norway

Pakistan

Also read "List of mausoleums and shrines in Pakistan".



*Abdullah Shah Ghazi Mazar (mausoleum of Karachi's sufi saint), Karachi

Philippines




*Quezon Memorial

Poland

*Mausoleum of the Grand Masters of the Teutonic Order, Ordensburg Marienburg in Malbork, Poland

Romania

*Marasesti Mausoleum to the Unknown Soldier

Russia



Saudi Arabia



Serbia

*Kuća cveća (House of the Flowers) Where comrade Marshal Tito was laid to rest in Belgrade.
*Oplenac, mausoleum of the Serbian Karađorđević Royal Family.

Spain



Sudan



Syria



Taiwan

*The Tzuhu Presidential Burial Place, burial place of President Chiang Kai-shek, in Tzuhu

Turkey



Ukraine

* Nikolay Pirogov's mausoleum (Vinnitsa)
* Grigory Kotovsky's mausoleum (destroyed in 1941 by Romanian troops).

United Kingdom

*Frogmore Mausoleum, burial place of Victoria and Albert
*Highgate Cemetery, London, has an impressive collection of Victorian mausoleums
*Hamilton Mausoleum, Hamilton, South Lanarkshire. One of the largest mausolea in the world, the building was started by David Hamilton in 1842 and completed by David Bryce and Alexander Richie in 1858. [http://www.geo.ed.ac.uk:81/scotgaz/features/featurefirst6722.html External link]
*Castle Howard Mausoleum, in Yorkshire, by the noted architect Hawksmoor, and ancestral resting place of the Howard family. Inaccessible to the public save by prior appointment.
*Kensal Green Cemetery, London, the oldest English cemetery of its type still in operation, has many elaborate Victorian mausoleums, including that of Anthony Trollope.
*Museum of Garden History, holds Captain Bligh’s monument moulded from Coade stone.
*West Norwood Cemetery, London includes listed buildings with unusual materials that include wood, pottery (Doulton and Tate) and cast iron (Berens), and many classical mausoleums in its Greek Orthodox area.

United States

"See also List of pyramid mausoleums in North America."

*Glover Mausoleum
*Grant's Tomb
*Mausoleum of Henry and Arabella Huntington
*Miles Mausoleum
*Mount Holly Mausoleum
*Queen of Heaven Mausoleum
*Stanford Mausoleum

Uzbekistan



Venezuela



Vietnam



ee also

*List of cemeteries
*List of memorials
*List of tombs and mausoleums

External links

* [http://pagetour.narod.ru/khiva/mausoleums.html List of twelve mousoleums of Khiva]
* [http://www.nolacemeteries.com/types.html] European-influenced mausolea in New Orleans


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