List of mausolea

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This is a list of mausolea around the world.

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Afghanistan[]

  • Ahmed Shah Masood, Panjshir

  • Mausoleum of Mohammad Zaher Shah (Hill of Teppe Maranjan) in Kabul

  • The Shrine of Baba Wali near Kandahar

  • Abdur Rahman Khan's Mausoleum in Kabul

  • Bagh-e Babur, mausolea of the founder of the Mughal Empire

Albania[]

Algeria[]

Angola[]

  • Mausoleum of Antonio Agostinho Neto, Luanda

Azerbaijan[]


  • Seyyid Yahya Bakuvi's Mausoleum in the Palace of the Shirvanshahs, Baku

  • Yusuf ibn Kuseir Mausoleum, Nakhchivan

  • Huseyn Javid Mausoleum, Nakhchivan

  • Prophet Noah Mausoleum, Nakhchivan

  • Javad Khan Mausoleum, Ganja

  • Diri Baba Mausoleum, Qobustan

  • Vagif Mausoleum, Shusha

  • Yahya ibn Muhammad al-Haj Mausoleum, Məmmədbəyli

  • Tomb of shirvanshahs, Baku

  • Mausoleum of Heydar Aliyev in Alley of Honor, Baku

Bangladesh[]

  • Mausoleum of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman in Gopalganj, Dhaka, 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.

  • Mausoleum of Saint Khan Jahan Ali

  • Tomb of Saint King Shah Sultan Balkhi Mahisawar

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  • Tomb of Saint Shah Paran

  • Sufi Gora's tomb.

  • The shrine of Gous Al Azam Ahmed Ullah

  • Tomb of Sufi King Shah Mokhdum

  • Tomb of Religious teacher Lalon

  • Tomb of King Ghiyasuddin Ajom Shah

  • The Holy Shrine of Sayid Jiaul Hok.

Belgium[]

Mausoleum of the Counts of Bossu, by Jacques du Broeucq.[1]

  • "Chapelle des Seigneurs": mausoleum of the Counts of Bossu.

Bosnia and Herzegovina[]

Brunei[]

  • Sultan Sharif Ali's Mausoleum, 3rd Sultan, (1425–1432 CE), Near Kota Batu

  • The Mausoleum of Sultan Bolkiah, fifth Sultan of Brunei

Bulgaria[]

China[]

  • Mausoleum of Mao Zedong, Beijing, Tiananmen Square

  • Mausoleum of Hua Guofeng, Jiaocheng County

  • The Mausoleum of Abakh Khoja, Kashgar

  • The Mausoleum of Sultan Satuq Bughra Khan, the first Muslim khan of Kara-Khanid Khanate, in Artush, Xinjiang

  • Mausoleum of Genghis Khan, Inner Mongolia

  • Mausoleum of Yuan Shikai, Beiguan, Anyang

Cuba[]

Cyprus[]

  • Hala Sultan Tekke

Czech Republic[]

  • Mausoleum of Yugoslavian Soldiers in Olomouc
  • National Monument in Vitkov

Egypt[]

Ancient Egypt Mausolea:

  • QV66, Queen Nefertari's tomb, Valley of the Queens, Luxor[2]

  • pyramids of ancient Egypt.
  • Mastaba.
  • Nubian pyramids.
  • QV66.

Holy Shrines & Mausolea in Egypt

  • Abu el Abbas el Mursi Mosque in Alexandria

  • Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria Tomb, (1923–2012)

Christian Holy Shrines and Mausolea

  • Monastery of Saint Macarius the Great, Shrine of Saint John the Baptist & Elisha the Prophet
  • Monastery of Saint Macarius the Great, Shrine of Saints Macarius the Great, Macarius of Alexandria, Macarius of the Bishop
  • Syrian Monastery, Egypt, Shrine of Mary Magdalene
  • Saint Mark's Coptic Orthodox Cathedral (Alexandria), Shrine of Saint Mark the Evangelist
  • Saint Mark's Coptic Orthodox Cathedral, Cairo, Shrine of Saint Athanasius
  • Paromeos Monastery, Shrine of Saints Maximus & Domitius
  • White Monastery, Shrine of Saint Shenouda the Archimandrite
  • Convent of Saint Theodore (Harat al-Rum), Shrine of Saint Marina the Monk
  • St. Abraam Coptic Orthodox Monastery, Shrine of Abraam, Bishop of Faiyum
  • Monastery of Saint Mina, Shrine of Pope Cyril VI & Saint Menas
  • Saint Mercurius Church in Coptic Cairo, Shrine of Mother Irini
  • Monastery of Saint Pishoy, Shrine of Pope Shenouda III
  • Monastery of Saint Mina, Shrine of Pope Cyril VI & Saint Menas

Islamic Holy Shrines and Mausolea

Mamluk Mausolea in Egypt

  • Qalawun Mausoleum is the Mausoleum of Qalawun, Cairo, Egypt.

Mausolea of The Muhammad Ali Dynasty

  • Hosh al-Basha Mausoleum

  • Mosque of Muhammad Ali

  • Al-Rifa'i Mosque

  • 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

War Memorials in Egypt

  • Tomb of Unknown Soldier in Madinat Nasser, Cairo, Egypt

Commonwealth War Graves Commission Egypt

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.

France[]

  • 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[]

  • The Juselius Mausoleum lies in Pori, Finland

Germany[]

Hungary[]

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, 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 and his son 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 built in 1635 CE by Mughal Emperor, Shah Jahan in Agra.

  • Salim Chishti, Fatehpur Sikri.

  • Haji Ali Dargah, Mumbai.

  • 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[]

  • 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[]

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 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

  • 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

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.

Israel and Palestinian territories[]

  • 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

  • Mausoleum of Yasser Arafat, Ramallah

Italy[]

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

Jordan[]

  • 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[]

  • Mausoleum of Khoja Ahmed Yasawi

  • The restored mausoleum of Ayshah bibi near Taraz.

Kyrgyzstan[]

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

Mali[]

  • Mausoleum of Askia Mohammad I in Gao, Mali

Mongolia[]

Morocco[]

  • 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[]

Netherlands[]

  • Nieuwe Kerk (Delft)

  • Mausoleum of German Emperor Wilhelm II at Huis Doorn in Doorn

North Korea[]

  • Kumsusan Memorial Palace, Pyongyang, North Korea

Norway[]

  • 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[]

Main article: List of mausoleums and shrines in Pakistan
  • Abdullah Shah Ghazi Mazar (mausoleum of Karachi's sufi saint), Karachi

Philippines[]

Poland[]

Romania[]

  • Mausoleum in Carol Park, Bucharest

Russia[]

Saudi Arabia[]

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

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.

South Korea[]

Spain[]

Sudan[]

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

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

  • Na'asah Mosque, Mausoleum of the Assad family in Qardaha

Taiwan[]

  • 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[]

Turkmenistan[]

Turkey[]

  • 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

Ukraine[]

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

United Kingdom[]

United States[]

See also List of pyramid mausoleums in North America.

Uzbekistan[]

Venezuela[]

  • National Pantheon of Venezuela, Caracas, Venezuela

  • El Museo Histórico Militar de Caracas

Vietnam[]

See also[]

References[]

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

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