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This is a list of mausolea around the world.

[edit] Afghanistan

Ahmed Shah Masood, Panjshir
The Shrine of Baba Wali near Kandahar
Abdur Rahman Khan's Mausoleum in Kabul.Abdur Rehman Khan re-established the writ of the Afghan government in Kabul after the disarray that followed the second Anglo-Afghan war.

[edit] Algeria

[edit] Azerbaijan

Pir-Hussein Mausoleum
Nizami Mausoleum (Ganja)
Seyyid Yahya Bakuvi's Mausoleum in the Palace of the Shirvanshahs (Baku)
Tomb of Shirvanshahs in the Palace of the Shirvanshahs (Baku)
Momine Khatun Mausoleum (Nakhchivan)
Yusuf ibn Kuseir Mausoleum (Nakhchivan)
Huseyn Javid Mausoleum (Nakhchivan)
Prophet Noah Mausoleum (Nakhchivan)
Shamakhi mausoleum (Şamaxı)
Seyyid Amin Mausoleum (Beylagan Rayon)
Kerbalai Seyyid Agha Mausoleum (Beylagan Rayon)
Sheikh Badraddin Mausoleum, Sheikh Mansur Mausoleum, Sheikh Mahomed Mausoleum (Həzrə, Qabala Rayon)
Haji Mahmud Effendi Mausoleum or Blue mausoleum (Aslanbəyli, Qazakh Rayon)
Mausoleum Mollaverdi (Goranboy Rayon)
Sheikh Zayed and Seyyid Khalife Mausoleums (Lankaran Rayon)
Yeddi Gumbez Mausoleum (Şamaxı)
Naimi Mausoleum (Xanəgah, Julfa Rayon)
Karabaglar Mausoleum (Qarabağlar, Kangarli Rayon)
Çalxanqala Mausoleum (Çalxanqala, Kangarli Rayon)
Javad Khan Mausoleum (Ganja)
Diri Baba Mausoleum (Qobustan)
Vagif Mausoleum (Shusha)
Mirza Adigezal bey Mausoleum (Rəhimli, Goranboy Rayon)
Yahya ibn Muhammad al-Haj Mausoleum (Məmmədbəyli, Zangilan Rayon)
Barda Mausoleum (Barda)
Akhsatan Baba Mausoleum (Barda Rayon)
Heydar Almazov Mausoleum (Neftchala Rayon)
Siradzhaddin Agha Mausoleum (Samukh Rayon)
Anagid Mausoleum (Çaykənd, Goygol Rayon)
Sheikh Yusif Mausoleum (Şıxlar, Khachmaz Rayon)
Kələxana Mausoleums (Shamakhi Rayon)
Pirmərdəkan Mausoleum (Göylər, Shamakhi Rayon)
Baba Samad Mausoleum (Rüdəkənar, Masally Rayon)
Gharib Seyyid Mausoleum (Şatıroba, Masally Rayon)
Baba Amir Mausoleum (Masally Rayon)
Khalil Mausoleum (Siyəzən)
Subaby Mausoleum (Alpan, Quba Rayon)
Dilim Baba Mausoleum (Hapıt, Quba Rayon)
Qaqash Huseyn Mausoleum (Şivlə, Lerik Rayon)
Sumakhi Mausoleum (Digah, Absheron Rayon)
Ahmad ibn Karim Mausoleum (Maşxan, Astara Rayon)
Sheikh Ahmadli Mausoleum (Xəlilli, Agsu Rayon)

Nizami Mausoleum in Ganja
Seyyid Yahya Bakuvi's Mausoleum in the Palace of the Shirvanshahs, Baku
Momine Khatun Mausoleum, Nakhchivan
Yusuf ibn Kuseir Mausoleum, Nakhchivan
Huseyn Javid Mausoleum, Nakhchivan
Prophet Noah Mausoleum, Nakhchivan
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Yeddi Gumbez Mausoleum, Şamaxı
Javad Khan Mausoleum, Ganja
Diri Baba Mausoleum, Qobustan
Vagif Mausoleum, Shusha
Yahya ibn Muhammad al-Haj Mausoleum, Məmmədbəyli
Tomb of shirvanshahs, Baku

[edit] Bangladesh

Known as Suhrawardy Udyan after Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy it is the burial place of three prominent leaders namely Sher-e-Bangla A.K. Fazlul Huq, Khwaja Nazimuddin and Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy.

[edit] Bosnia and Herzegovina

Alija Izetbegović's Mausoleum in Sarajevo

[edit] Brunei

Sultan Sharif Ali's Mausoleum ,3rd Sultan,(1425 CE - 1432 CE),Near Kota Batu
The Mausoleum of Sultan Bolkiah, fifth Sultan of Brunei

[edit] 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)

[edit] China

Mausoleum of Mao Zedong,Beijing, Tiananmen Square
The Mausoleum of Abakh Khoja, Kashgar
Mausoleum of Genghis Khan, Inner Mongolia
Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum, Nanjing

[edit] Colombia

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[edit] Cuba

Mausoleum of Ernesto "Che" Guevara in Santa Clara, Cuba.

[edit] Cyprus

Hala Sultan Tekke

[edit] Czech Republic

Mausoleum of Yugoslavian Soldiers in Olomouc

[edit] England

Rothschild Mausoleum

Sassoon Mausoleum, 2008.
Montefiore Synagogue and tomb.

Frogmore Mausoleum, burial place of Victoria and Albert
Highgate Cemetery, London, has an impressive collection of Victorian mausoleums
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.
Ralph Adam Mausoleum (c.1766, restored 1965), Claverton, Somerset

[edit] Estonia

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.

[edit] 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

[edit] Finland

The Juselius Mausoleum lies in Pori, Finland

[edit] Germany

The Carstanjen Mausoleum, a Grecian rotunda at Haus Carstanjen, Bonn
Floratempel, mausoleum of Carl Duisberg, Leverkusen

[edit] Hungary

Gül Baba's Mausoleum in Budapest.

[edit] India

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.
The mausoleum housing 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 C.E. by Mughal Emperor, Shah Jahan in Agra.
Salim Chishti, Fatehpur Sikri.
Haji Ali Dargah, Mumbai.
Mausoleum of Bu Ali Shah Qalandar, Mughal General Mahabat Khan, Hakim Mukaram Khan and Urdu Poet Maulana Altaf Hussain Hali, Panipat.
Itmad-Ud-Daulah's Mausoleum, Agra.
Raj Ghat is the site where Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was cremated.
Mausoleum of Sultan Ghari
Mausoleum of Sultan Ghiyath-ud-Din Balban (1200 – 1287 C.E.) 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.

[edit] Indonesia

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

[edit] Iran

See also: List of tombs of Iranian/Persian people

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 Omar Khayyám, Nishapur
Mausoleum of Abdol-samad, built in 1304AD in Natanz.
Mausoleum of Abu-Lu'lu'ah, the assassin of Islam's second caliph, Omar 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
Mausoleum of Avicenna in Hamedan
Imamzadeh Mahruq mausoleum
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
Ruhollah Khomeini's Mausoleum at Behesht-e Zahra in Tehran
Maqbaratoshoara or Maqbarat al-Shu'ara' is a Mausoleum for many famous poets in Tabriz
Shah Cheragh is a tomb of two brothers Amir Ahmad and Mir Muhammad, both of whom were brothers of Imam Reza in Shiraz
Inside Shah Cheragh
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

[edit] Iraq

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.

[edit] Israel and the Palestinian territories

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

[edit] Italy

[edit] Jordan

Tomb of Abu Ubaidah ibn al Jarrah in Balqa Governorate, Jordan.

[edit] Kazakhstan

The restored mausoleum of Ayshah bibi near Taraz.

[edit] Kyrgyzstan

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

[edit] Mali

Mausoleum of Askia Mohammad I in Gao,Mali

[edit] Mongolia

Sükhbaatar's mausoleum, Ulan Bator, Mongolia

[edit] Morocco

Mohammed V of Morocco's tomb inside his mausoleum at Rabat, with Hassan II's tomb in the background
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 Idris I (green structure bottom left) in Moulay Idriss

[edit] North Korea

Kumsusan Memorial Palace, Pyongyang, North Korea

[edit] Northern Ireland

Templeton Mausoleum of Castle Upton, Templepatrick, County Antrim, Northern Ireland.
Stephenson Family Mausoleum (1837), Ballyclare, County Antrim

[edit] 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

[edit] Pakistan

Main article: List of mausoleums and shrines in Pakistan

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.
Mausoleum of Jahangir(Ruler of Mughal Empire), Lahore.
Mausoleum of Nur Jehan, Shahdara Bagh, Lahore.
Mausoleum of Shah Rukn-e-Alam, one of many notable mausoleums of Multan.
Tomb of Syed Faiz-ul Hassan Shah and Pir Syed Amin Shah in Allo Mahar, Sialkot.
Mausoleum of Hazrat Bahawal Haleem, Uch Sharif.
Mausoleum of Bibi Pak Daman, Lahore.
Samadhi of Ranjit Singh, Lahore.
Abdul Hasan Asaf Khan's decrepit Timurid-style Mausoleum at Shahdara Bagh, Lahore,He was the brother of Empress Nur Jehan and father of Empress Mumtaz Mahal.
Khwaja Ghulam Farid's Mausoleum at Kot Mithan.
Chaukhandi tombs,25km east of Karachi on N-5 National Highway
Shrine of Daud Bandagi Kirmani in Shergarh,Pakistan completed in 1590 C.E. by Ustad Baazid
Baha-ud-din Zakariya's Mausoleum in Multan
Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi's Mausoleum in Kotri Sharif, Gohar Shahi was the founder of International Spiritual Movement Anjuman Serfaroshan-e-Islam
Bhutto family Mausoleum in Garhi Khuda Bakhsh.It is the burial place of two former Prime Ministers of Pakistan;Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and his daughter Benazir Bhutto.
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
Tomb of Agham Kot in Hyderabad, Sindh

[edit] Philippines

Quezon Memorial

Quezon Memorial, in Quezon City, final resting place of President Manuel Quezon and his wife, Aurora.

[edit] Poland

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

[edit] Romania

[edit] Russia

Lenin's Mausoleum

Shahghali of Kazan's Mausoleum, Kasimov
Mausoleums in Bolghar

[edit] Saudi Arabia

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

[edit] Scotland

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

[edit] Serbia

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.

[edit] Spain

Valle de los Caídos, in San Lorenzo del Escorial

[edit] Sudan

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

[edit] Syria

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
Tomb of Khalid ibn al-Walid, inside the Khalid ibn al-Walid Mosque, Homs.

[edit] Taiwan

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

[edit] Turkmenistan

Mausoleum of Shah of Khwarezm, Ala-al-Din Tekish ibn Il-Arslan in Konye-Urgench.

[edit] Turkey

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Anıtkabir, the mausoleum of Kemal Atatürk, in Ankara, Turkey
İsmet İnönü's Mausoleum
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

[edit] Ukraine

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

[edit] United Kingdom

See under England, Scotland and Wales

[edit] 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
Tacoma Mausoleum

[edit] Uzbekistan

Gur-e Amir is the mausoleum of the Asian conqueror Tamerlane (also known as Timur) in Samarkand
Dorussiadat mausoleum of Jehangir, Timur’s eldest and favorite son, Shahrisabz
The Mausoleum of Sheikh Hovendi at-Tahur (Sheihantaur)in Tashkent
Mausoleum of Sheikh Zaynudinin 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 Amir Ismail Samani in Bukhara

[edit] Venezuela

National Pantheon of Venezuela,Caracas, Venezuela

[edit] Vietnam

Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum, Hanoi

[edit] See also

[edit] External links

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

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