List of mausolea

Mausoleum of Hosh al-Basha in Fustat, Cairo.
Mausoleum of Muhammad Ali Pasha in The Great Mosque of Muhammad Ali Pasha, Citadel of Cairo, Cairo.
Khedival Mausoleum, Al-Rifa'i Mosque, Mosque in Midan al Qal'a, Cairo.
Mausoleum of Khedive Tawfiq, Qubbat Afandina, Afifi, Cairo.

20th Century Mausolea & Memorials in Egypt

Mausoleum of Abdel Halim Hafez in Al-Rifa'i Mosque, Cairo.
Mausoleum of Aga Khan III in Aswan.
Mausoleum of Auguste Mariette in the Egyptian Museum, Cairo.
Mausoleum of Boutros Boutros-Ghali in Petrine Church, Cairo.
Mausoleum of Constantine P. Cavafy in the Greek Orthodox Cemetery of Alexandria.
Mausoleum of Gamal Abdel Nasser, Gamal Abdel Nasser Mosque, in Cairo.

Gamal Abdel Nasser Mosque, in Cairo, Egypt

Mausoleum of Naguib Mahfouz in Al-Rashdan Mosque, Madinet Nasser, Cairo.
Mausoleum of Saad Zaghloul, Beit El-Umma, Downtown Cairo.
Mausoleum of Youssef Chahine in family crypt of the Greek Orthodox Cemetery of Alexandria.
Mausoleum of Umm Kulthum in Cairo.

War Memorials in Egypt

Tomb of Unknown Soldier in Madinat Nasser, Cairo, Egypt

Commonwealth War Graves Commission Egypt

Alamein Memorial, Mathruh.
El Qantara, Ismaileya.
Alexandria (Hadra) War Memorial Cemetery.
Heliopolis War Cemetery.

Estonia Edit

Barclay de Tolly mausoleum in Jõgeveste. It is the burial place of Russian field marshal Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly and his wife Helene Auguste Eleonore.

France Edit

Panthéon
Basilica of St Denis
Les Invalides
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 Edit

The Juselius Mausoleum lies in Pori, Finland

Germany Edit

Mausoleum im Schlosspark Charlottenburg
Bismarck Mausoleum, the mausoleum of Prince Otto von Bismarck and his wife Johanna von Puttkamer.
The Carstanjen Mausoleum, a Grecian rotunda at Haus Carstanjen, Bonn
Floratempel, mausoleum of Carl Duisberg, Leverkusen
Zentralfriedhof Friedrichsfelde, mausoleum of the Socialists

Hungary Edit

Gül Baba's Mausoleum in Budapest.

India Edit

Main: Mausoleums in India

Emperor Humayun's Mausoleum, Nizamuddin east, New Delhi.
The Taj Mahal is a Mausoleum of Emperor Shah Jahan and Mumtaz Mahal, Agra.
Safdarjung's Tomb is a garden tomb in a marble mausoleum.
Bibi Ka Maqbara or Mausoleum of the Lady is the resting place of Dilras Bano Begam wife of Emperor Aurangzeb in Aurangabad, Maharashtra.
Bahauddin Makbara, mausoleum of the Wazir of Junagadh, Mahabat Maqbara.
Gumbaz, Seringapatam, the mausoleum of Tippu Sultan and his father Hyder Ali at Srirangapatna.
Gol Gumbaz, is the mausoleum of Mohammed Adil Shah. It has the second largest pre-modern dome in the world after the Byzantine Hagia Sophia.
Mauoleum of Chand Bibi defender of Ahmednagar against the Mughal forces of Emperor Akbar.
Mausoleum of Mohammed Shah in the Lodhi Gardens, New Delhi.
Mausoleum of Akbar the Great, Agra.
Mausoleum of Ghiyath al-Din Tughluq, Tughlaqabad.
Sikandar Lodhi's Mausoleum at Lodhi Gardens, New Delhi.
Hazira Maqbara Mausoleum of Qutbuddin Muhammad Khan and his son Naurang Khan generals and administrators of Gujarat province of the Mughal Empire during Emperor Akbar the Great's reign in the city of Vadodara.
Ataga Khan’s Tomb near Chausath Khamba.
Barakhamba is a 14th century tomb building from the Lodi period.
Adham Khan's Tomb, which also house the tomb of his mother, Maham Anga, Mehrauli, Delhi.
Moinuddin Chishti's Mausoleum in Ajmer.
Mausoleum of Mughal Empire's Vizier Allama Afzal Khan built in 1635 CE by Mughal Emperor, Shah Jahan in Agra.
Salim Chishti, Fatehpur Sikri.
Haji Ali Dargah, Mumbai.
Itmad-Ud-Daulah's Mausoleum, Agra.
Mausoleum of Sultan Ghari
Mausoleum of Sultan Ghiyath-ud-Din Balban (1200–1287 CE) Turkic ruler of the Delhi Sultanate
Mausoleum of Sultan Sher Shah Suri at Sasaram in Bihar.
Mausoleum of Isa Khan Niazi a renowned general of Sher Shah Suri near the Mughal Emperor Humayun's Tomb complex in Delhi 1547–1548 CE. An inscription on a red sandstone slab says Masnad Ali Isa Khan, son of Niaz Aghwan, the Chief chamberlain.
Raj Ghat, a memorial to Mahatma Gandhi.

Indonesia Edit

Imogiri, in Java where Sultan Agung's Mausoleum has extended into a complex of descendants graves.
Makam Bung Karno in Blitar, East Java, Indonesia
Astana Giribangun

Iran Edit

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

Cyrus the Great's Mausoleum lies in the ruins of Pasargadae, now a UNESCO World Heritage Site
Imam Reza shrine, Mausoleum of:
*Eighth Twelver Shī`a Imām, ‘Alī ar-Ridhā
(Mashhad)
Fātimah al-Ma‘sūmah Mosque, Mausoleum of:
*Fātimah al-Ma‘sūmah (sister of ‘Alī ar-Ridhā)
One of Iran's holiest places. The shrine complex includes dozens of seminaries and religious schools
(Qom)
Naqsh-e Rustam where lie The Achaemenid tombs of Darius I (r. 522–486 BCE). Xerxes I(r. 486–465 BCE), Artaxerxes I (r. 465-424 BCE), and Darius II (r. 423–404 BCE). A fifth unfinished one might be that of Artaxerxes III, but is more likely that of Darius III
Naqsh-e Rustam
Mausoleum of Abdol-samad, built in 1304 CE in Natanz.
Mausoleum of Abu Lu'lu'a, the assassin of Islam's second caliph, Umar ibn al-Khattab, Kashan.
Mausoleum of Bayazid Bastami in Bistam
Al-Ghazali Mausoleum in Tus
Saadi (poet) Mausoleum in Shiraz
Farid-al-Din Attar's Mausoleum in Nishapur
Mazare Shahmir
Shazdeh Hosein shrine, Qazvin
Imamzadeh Hamzeh, Mahshahr-Hendijan, Khuzestan
Shrine of Sheikh Shebeli, Damavand
Sheikh Safi's Mausoleum, Ardabil
Imamzadeh Saleh Mausoleum in Tehran
Shah-Abdol-Azim Cemetery
Mausoleum of Nadir Shah, Mashad
Front facade of the Ferdowsi's mausoleum in Tus
Tomb of Daniel the writer of Book of Daniel, Susa
Maqbaratoshoara or Maqbarat al-Shu'ara' is a Mausoleum for many famous poets in Tabriz
Mongol Ilkhan Emperor Öljaitü's Mausoleum in Soltaniyeh
The Kharāghān twin towers, are mausoleums built in 1053 CE, Qazvin Province
The blue turquoise conical dome of the Mausoleum of Hamdollah Mostowfi "the explorer" in Qazvin
Mausoleum of Ruhollah Khomeini in Tehran

Iraq Edit

Imām `Alī Mosque, Mausoleum of:
*`Alī ibn Abī Tālib
*Adam (Shī`ah belief)
*Noah (Shī`ah belief)
( Najaf )
Imām Husayn Mosque, Mausoleum of:
*Husayn ibn `Alī
*‘Ali Akbar ibn Husayn
*‘Ali Asghar ibn Husayn
*Habīb ibn Madhāhir
*All the martyrs of Karbalā
*Ibrāhīm ibn Musā al-Kādhim
( Karbalā )
Al ‘Abbās Mosque, Mausoleum of:
*‘Abbās ibn `Alī
( Karbalā )
Al Kadhimiya Mosque, Mausoleum of:
*Seventh, Twelver Shī`a Imām, Musā al-Kādhim
*Ninth, Twelver Shī`a Imām, Muhammad at-Taqī
*Shaykh Mufīd
*Shaykh Tūsi
( Kadhimayn )
Al `Askarī Mosque, Mosoleum of:
*Tenth, Twelver Shī`a Imām, `Alī an-Naqī
*Eleventh, Twelver Shī`a Imām, Hasan al-`Askarī
*Hakimah Khātūn
*Narjis Khātūn
( Sāmarrā' )
Mausoleum of Sheikh Adi ibn Musafir at Lalish is a focal point of Yazidi pilgrimage.

Israel and Palestinian territories Edit

Joseph's Tomb

Bnei Hazir tomb, Jerusalem
David's Tomb, Jerusalem
Rachel's Tomb located on the outskirts of Bethlehem. The present sanctuary was built during the Ottoman period.
Tomb of Samuel, Jerusalem
Yad Avshalom, Jerusalem
Tomb of Zechariah, Jerusalem
Mount Herzl
Mausoleum of Yasser Arafat, Ramallah

Italy Edit

Mausoleum of Augustus
Mausoleum of Theodoric
Castel Sant'Angelo, Hadrian mausoleum
Pantheon, Rome
San Cassiano cemetery – Cripta Mussolini, burial place of Benito Mussolini.

Jordan Edit

Tomb of Abu Ubaidah ibn al Jarrah in Balqa Governorate, Jordan.
The Khazneh at Petra in southern Jordan

Al-Khazneh in Petra, believed to be the mausoleum of Nabataean King Aretas IV
Hashemite Family Cemetery, the royal cemetery of the Jordan royal family.

Kazakhstan Edit

Mausoleum of Khoja Ahmed Yasawi
The restored mausoleum of Ayshah bibi near Taraz.

Kyrgyzstan Edit

11–12th century Karakhanid mausolea in Uzgen, Kyrgyzstan.

Mali Edit

Mausoleum of Askia Mohammad I in Gao, Mali

Mongolia Edit

Sükhbaatar's mausoleum, Ulan Bator, Mongolia
Altan-Ölgii National Cemetery, Ulan Bator, Mongolia

Morocco Edit

Mausoleum of Idris I (green structure bottom left) in Moulay Idriss
Mausoleum of Idris II, now part of a large zawiya (religious complex) in Fez
Saadian Tombs in Marrakech. The mausoleum comprises the corpses of about sixty members of the Saadi Dynasty including the Sultan Ahmad I al-Mansur Saadi
Mausoleum of Moulay Ismail in Meknes
Mohammed V of Morocco's tomb inside his mausoleum at Rabat, with Hassan II's tomb in the background

Myanmar Edit

Netherlands Edit

Nieuwe Kerk (Delft)
Mausoleum of German Emperor Wilhelm II at Huis Doorn in Doorn

North Korea Edit

Mausoleum of Tangun
Goguryeo tombs
- Tomb of King Tongmyong
Royal Tombs of the Goryeo Dynasty
- Tomb of King Wanggon
- Tomb of King Kongmin

Kumsusan Memorial Palace, Pyongyang, North Korea

Norway Edit

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

Pakistan Edit

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

Mausoleum of Muhammad Ali Jinnah also called Mazar-e-Quaid, Karachi.
Mausoleum of Muhammad Iqbal, Lahore.
Mausoleum and Mosque of Sufi Saint Abul Hassan Ali Hajweri, Lahore.
Tomb of Jahangir, Lahore
Tomb of Nur Jahan, Lahore
Tomb of Shah Rukn-e-Alam, one of many mausoleums of Multan
Tomb of Syed Faiz-ul Hassan Shah and Pir Syed Amin Shah in Allo Mahar, Sialkot.
Mausoleum of Bibi Pak Daman, Lahore.
Samadhi of Ranjit Singh, Lahore.
Tomb of Asif Khan, Lahore
Khwaja Ghulam Farid's Mausoleum at Kot Mithan.
Chaukhandi tombs,25 km east of Karachi on N-5 National Highway
Shrine of Daud Bandagi Kirmani in Shergarh, Pakistan completed in 1590 CE by Ustad Baazid
Baha-ud-din Zakariya's Mausoleum in Multan
Mausoleum of Mir Muhammad better known as Mian Mir in Lahore;he was the spiritual instructor of Mughal Prince Dara Shikoh.
Mausoleum of Sohni Mahiwal in Shahdadpur, Sindh
Bhutto family mausoleum ，Larkana District, Sindh

Philippines Edit

Quezon Memorial
Aguinaldo Shrine
Libingan ng mga Bayani
Manila North Cemetery
Marcos Museum and Mausoleum in Batac, Ilocos Norte, the mausoleum houses the remains of Former Philippine President Ferdinand E. Marcos.

Poland Edit

Mausoleum of the Grand Masters of the Teutonic Order, Ordensburg Marienburg in Malbork, Poland
Karol Scheibler's Chapel
Powązki Military Cemetery

Romania Edit

Mausoleum in Carol Park, Bucharest

Russia Edit

Shahghali of Kazan's Mausoleum, Kasimov
Mausoleums in Bolghar
Cathedral of the Archangel, Moscow
Peter and Paul Cathedral
Lenin's Mausoleum

Saudi Arabia Edit

Masjidun Nabawi, Mausoleum of:
*The Islāmic Prophet Muhammad
( Madinah )

Serbia Edit

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

South Korea Edit

Royal Tombs of the Silla Dynasty
Royal Tombs of the Joseon Dynasty
Kim Koo Museum and Hyochang Park

Spain Edit

Sudan Edit

Mausoleum of Muhammad Ahmad a.k.a. The Mahdi in Omdurman.

Syria Edit

Nabi Habeel Mosque, Mausoleum of:
*Abel (Arabic:Hābeel) son of Adam
( near Zabadānī )
Sayyidah Zaynab Mosque, Mausoleum of:
*Zaynab bint ‘Alī
( Damascus )
Sayyidah Ruqayya Mosque, Mausoleum of:
*Fātimah bint Husayn ibn ‘Alī (aka. "Ruqayya" or "Sukayna")
( Damascus )
Great Mosque of Aleppo, Mausoleum of:
*Zechariah (Arabic: Zakariyya) father of John the Baptist
( Aleppo )
Umayyad Mosque,
Mausoleum of:
*John the Baptist (Arabic: Yahya)
( Damascus )
Mausoleum of Sultan Saladin near the northwestern corner of the Umayyad Mosque, in Damascus
Khalid ibn al-Walid Mausoleum and Mosque, in Homs
Na'asah Mosque, Mausoleum of the Assad family in Qardaha

Taiwan Edit

Cihu Presidential Burial Place, burial place of President Chiang Kai-shek, in Daxi.
Touliao Mausoleum, burial place of President Chiang Ching-Kuo in Daxi.

Tajikistan Edit

Turkmenistan Edit

Türkmenbaşy Ruhy Mosque, Mausoleum of Saparmurat Niyazov, the President of Turkmenistan.
Mausoleum of Shah of Khwarezm, Ala-al-Din Tekish ibn Il-Arslan in Konye-Urgench.

Turkey Edit

Anıtkabir, the mausoleum of Kemal Atatürk, in Ankara, Turkey
İsmet İnönü's Mausoleum
Adnan Menderes's Mausoleum, in Istanbul, Turkey
Ruins of the Mausoleum of Maussollos, one of the seven wonders of the world, Bodrum
Xanthos Tombs, Kınık, Turkey. Also known as the Nereid Monument
Lycian rock cut tombs of Dalyan
Lycian tombs at Simena, Üçağız
Hierapolis the large necropolis is filled with sarcophagi, about 1200 tombs
Mevlana Museum is the mausoleum of Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi, a Sufi mystic also known as Mevlâna or Rumi in Konya

Roman mausoleums of Araban
Celal Bayar Mausoleum in Bursa
Süleyman Demirel Mausoleum

Ukraine Edit

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

United Kingdom Edit

Ailesbury Mausoleum
Castle Howard Mausoleum, in Yorkshire, by the noted architect Hawksmoor
Chandos Mausoleum, Harrow
Comte de Vezlo Mausoleum, Mortlake, London
Darnley Mausoleum, Gravesend
De Grey Mausoleum
Duchess of Kent's Mausoleum, Frogmore Gardens in Windsor Great Park
Gordon Tomb, Moray, Scotland
Hamilton Mausoleum, Hamilton, South Lanarkshire
Hannen Columbarium, Wargrave, Berkshire
Highgate Cemetery, London, has a collection of Victorian mausoleums
Kilmorey Mausoleum, Richmond upon Thames, London
Lytton Mausoleum, Knebworth Park, Hertfordshire
Mausoleum of Sir Richard and Lady Burton, Mortlake, London
Milton Mausoleum, Milton, Nottinghamshire
Monteath Mausoleum, Jedburgh, Scotland
Montefiore Synagogue, Ramsgate, Kent
Peacock Mausoleum, Gorton, Manchester
The Rockingham Mausoleum, Rotherham, South Yorkshire
Rothschild Mausoleum, West Ham, London
Frogmore Mausoleum, burial place of Victoria and Albert
Sassoon Mausoleum, Brighton
St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle
Stephenson Family Mausoleum, Ballyclare, County Antrim
Trafford Mausoleum, Wroxham
Templeton Mausoleum of Castle Upton, Templepatrick, County Antrim, Northern Ireland
Westminster Abbey

Westminster Abbey
St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle
Frogmore Mausoleum, burial place of Victoria and Albert.
Hamilton Mausoleum, Hamilton, South Lanarkshire
Sassoon Mausoleum, 2008.
Montefiore Synagogue and tomb.

United States Edit

Uzbekistan Edit

Dorussiadat mausoleum of Jehangir, Timur's eldest and favorite son, Shahrisabz
The Mausoleum of Sheikh Hovendi at-Tahur (Sheihantaur)in Tashkent
Saif ed-Din Bokharzi Mausoleum, Bukhara
Bayan-Quli Khan Mausoleum, Bukhara (Saif ed-Din Bokharzi & Bayan-Quli Khan Mausoleums)
Shah-i-Zinda (meaning "The Living King"), Samarkand
Shah-i-Zinda
Bibi-Khanym Mausoleum in Samarkand
Muhammad al-Bukhari mausoleum near Samarkand
Mausoleum of Islam Karimov in Shah-i-Zinda, Samarkand

Venezuela Edit

National Pantheon of Venezuela, Caracas, Venezuela
El Museo Histórico Militar de Caracas

Conjunto Monumental Panteón Nacional y Mausoleo del Libertador, National Pantheon of Venezuela and Simón Bolívar's Mausoleum
El Museo Histórico Militar de Caracas, Mausoleum of Hugo Chávez, the President of Venezuela.

Vietnam Edit

References Edit

^ "La Chapelle des Seigneurs — Commune de Boussu".
^ "Egypt's most beautiful (And expensive) tombs are reopening".

External links Edit

List of twelve mousoleums of Khiva
European-influenced mausolea in New Orleans

[1] "La Chapelle des Seigneurs — Commune de Boussu".

[2] "Egypt's most beautiful (And expensive) tombs are reopening".

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