mausoleums
Stately burial chambers
Mausoleums is the plural of mausoleum, a large stately tomb or building housing tombs.
The original Mausoleum was a monument built for King Mausolus in ancient Greece, one of the Seven Wonders of the ancient world.
Modern mausoleums are often found in cemeteries as above-ground burial structures: The family mausoleum held three generations of remains.
Underground chamber for remains
- vaultSecure storage chamber
- cryptSubterranean burial vault
- monumentStructure honoring someone remembered
- domeRounded vault forming roof
marble · columns · grandeur · chamber · edifice · portico · stonework · sepulcher
Putting a body underground
entombment · family · resting · memorial · crypts · niches · urns · ancestors
Marble mausoleum in Agra
- LeninSoviet state founder
- GrantFunds given officially
- HalicarnassusAncient Greek city, now Bodrum
- pyramidsApex-topped geometric solids
pharaohs · emperors · royalty · historic · landmark · pilgrimage · tourism · preservation
Basis for justification
- memorial parkLandscaped burial grounds
- necropolisAncient cemetery complex
- graveyardPlot for interring the dead
- plotsSecret plans or storylines
landscaping · pathways · gates · statuary · perpetual care · sections · visitation · maintenance
tomb
Underground chamber for remains
- vaultSecure storage chamber
- cryptSubterranean burial vault
- monumentStructure honoring someone remembered
dome · marble · columns · grandeur · chamber · edifice · portico · stonework · sepulcher · granite
interment
Putting a body underground
casket · entombment · family · resting · memorial · crypts · niches · urns · ancestors · eternal
Taj Mahal
Marble mausoleum in Agra
- LeninSoviet state founder
- GrantFunds given officially
- HalicarnassusAncient Greek city, now Bodrum
pyramids · pharaohs · emperors · royalty · historic · landmark · pilgrimage · tourism · preservation · heritage
grounds
Basis for justification
- memorial parkLandscaped burial grounds
- necropolisAncient cemetery complex
- graveyardPlot for interring the dead
plots · landscaping · pathways · gates · statuary · perpetual care · sections · visitation · maintenance · headstones
- Merv Ruinscitadel, city walls, gates, watchtowers
- cemeteriescemetery, graves, grave, burial, headstones
- funeral customsburial, funeral, cremation, funeral procession, casket
- funeralsfuneral, burial, cremation, casket, coffin
- cemeterygrave, headstone, headstones, graves, tombstone
- gravesgravestones, headstones, gravestone, tombstones, headstone
mausoleumsunmarked graves
Burial sites without identification
potter's fields · mass graves · wooden crosses · burial pits
mausoleumssea burials
Disposing bodies at ocean
sky burials · cremation · green burials · body donation · composting