List of mausolea

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For cemeteries containing multiple notable mausolea, see also List of famous cemeteries.

This is a list of mausolea around the world.

Afghanistan

Azerbaijan

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Brunei

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

China

Ancient Tombs at Longtou Mountain

Mausoleum of Princess Zhenxiao

Cuba

Mausoleum of Ernesto "Che" Guevara

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

Shrine of Musa al-Kazim and Muhammad Jawad al-Taqi

Israel

Joseph's Tomb

Italy

Kazakhstan

Kyrgyzstan

Mali

Mongolia

Sühbaatar'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

Poland

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

Romania

Marasesti Mausoleum to the Unknown Soldier

Russia

Serbia

Kuća cveća (House of the Flowers) Where comrade Marshal Tito was laid to rest in Belgrade.

Spain

Sudan

Syria

Mausoleum of Hazrat Syeda Zainab (s.a) Bint-e-Ali (a.s), Zainabia near Damascus.

Mausoleum of Hazrat Syeda Ruqayya (s.a) Bint-e-Hussain (a.s), Damascus.

Mausoleum of Hazrat Habeel Ibne Adam (a.s) Golan Heights.

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. 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.

Uzbekistan

Vietnam

See also

External links

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

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