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.

[edit] Afghanistan

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] Azerbaijan

Nizami Mausoleum in Ganja, Azerbaijan

A fragment of the statues near the Nizami Mausoleum

A series of statues near the Nizami Mausoleum

Statue series near the Nizami Mausoleum

[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

Gazi Husrev-beg's Mausoleum

[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

[edit] China

Mausoleum of Mao Zedong,Beijing, Tiananmen Square

The Mausoleum of Abakh Khoja, Kashgar

Ancient Tombs at Longtou Mountain
- Mausoleum of Princess Zhenxiao
Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor, Xi'an
Mausoleum of Genghis Khan, Inner Mongolia
Thirteen Imperial Mausoleums of Ming Dynasty Emperors, Beijing
Ming Xiaoling Mausoleum, Nanjing
Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum, Nanjing
Zhao Mausoleum, Jiuzong mountain, Shaanxi province

[edit] Cuba

Mausoleum of Ernesto "Che" Guevara

[edit] Cyprus

Hala Sultan Tekke

[edit] Czech Republic

Mausoleum of Yugoslavian Soldiers in Olomouc

[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

[edit] India

Mausoleum of Ghiyath al-Din Tughluq, Tughlaqabad	Emperor Humayun's Mausoleum,Nizamuddin east, New Delhi	Mausoleum of Ali Isa Khan Niazi beside Humayun's Tomb	Mausoleum of Akbar the Great,Agra
The Taj Mahal is a Mausoleum of Emperor Shah Jahan and Mumtaz Mahal,Agra.	Cenotaphs of Shah Jahan and Mumtaz Mahal inside the Taj Mahal	The mausoleum of Sher Shah Suri in Sasaram, Bihar	Bibi Ka Maqbara or 'Mausoleum of the Lady' is the resting place of Dilras Bano Begam wife of Emperor Aurangzeb in Aurangabad, Maharashtra
Nizamuddin Dargah is the Mausoleum of the famous Sufi Saint Nizamuddin Auliya,Delhi	Itmad-Ud-Daulah's Mausoleum,Agra	Moinuddin Chishti's Mausoleum in Ajmer	Haji Ali Dargah,Mumbai
Salim Chishti,Fathepur Sikri	Mausoleum of Bu Ali Shah Qalandar,Mahabat Khan,Hakim Mukaram Khan and Urdu Poet Maulana Altaf Hussain Hali,Panipat	The mausoleum housing Tippu Sultan and his father Hyder Ali at Srirangapatna	Mauoleum of Chand Bibi defender of Ahmednagar against the Mughal forces of Emperor Akbar.

[edit] Indonesia

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

[edit] Iran

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.	Mausoleum of Omar Khayyám,Nishapur	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
Imam Reza Mausoleumin Mashhad	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.	Shrine of Hazrat Masoumeh, one of Iran's holiest places. The shrine complex includes dozens of seminaries and religious schools.	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,Iran	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

Imam Husayn Shrine ,Karbala

Imam Ali Mosque Mausoleum and Mosque,Najaf

Mausoleum and Al-Askari Mosque of Hasan al-Askari,Samarra

Mausoleum of Sheikh Adi ibn Musafir at Lalish is a focal point of Yazidi pilgrimage.

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

[edit] Israel

Bnei Hazir tomb ,Jerusalem	Cave of the Patriarchs is burial place of four Biblical couples: (1) Adam and Eve; (2) Abraham and Sarah; (3) Isaac and Rebekah; (4) Jacob and Leah. According to Midrashic sources it also contains the head of Esau, and to Islamic sources, is also the tomb of Joseph,Hebron	David's Tomb,Jerusalem	Rachel's Tomb just outside of the Jerusalem neighborhood of Gilo at the northern entrance to Bethlehem, The present sanctuary was built during the Ottoman period.
Tomb of Samuel,Jerusalem	Yad Avshalom,Jerusalem	Tomb of Zechariah,Jerusalem

Joseph's Tomb

[edit] Italy

[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] 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

Also read List of mausoleums and shrines in Pakistan.

Mausoleum of Muhammad Ali Jinnah also called Mazar-e-Quaid, Karachi.	Mausoleum of Muhammad Iqbal, Lahore.	Inside the Mausoleum of Muhammad Iqbal,a marble sarcophagus	Mausoleum and Mosque of Sufi Saint Abul Hassan Ali Hajweri aka Data Ganj Bakhsh, 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.	Mausoleum of Bibi Jawindi, Uch Sharif.
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.
Fariduddin Ganjshakar's Mausoleum in Pakpattan was built by Khawaja Nizamuddin Aulia.	Khwaja Ghulam Farid's Mausoleum at Kot Mithan.	Mausoleum of Prince Sultan Ibrahim bin Mirza Muhammad Isa Tarkhan at Makli Hill,Sindh. It is one of the largest necropolises in the world and is supposed to be the burial place of some 125,000 Sufi saints,royalties and other dignitaries.	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

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

[edit] Philippines

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

Quezon Memorial

[edit] Poland

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

[edit] Romania

Marasesti Mausoleum to the Unknown Soldier

[edit] Russia

Lenin's Mausoleum

Shahghali of Kazan's Mausoleum, Kasimov

Mausoleums in Bolghar

[edit] Serbia

Kuća cveća (House of the Flowers) Where comrade Marshal 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

Mausoleum of Sultan Nur ad-Din Zengi,Damascus

Mausoleum of Sultan Saladin near the northwestern corner of the Umayyad Mosque, Damascus, Syria.

Khalid ibn al-Walid Mausoleum and Mosque,Homs,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.

[edit] Taiwan

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

[edit] Turkey

Anıtkabir, the mausoleum of Kemal Atatürk, in Ankara, Turkey	İsmet İnönü's Mausoleum	Alaeddin Mosque and Mausoleum,Konya.This mausoleum became the burial place of the Seljuq dynasty and houses the sarcophagi of eight of the Seljuq sultans of Rum Mesud I (d. 1156) Kilij Arslan II (d. 1196) Süleymanshah II (d. 1204) Kaykhusraw I (d. 1210) Kayqubad I (d. 1236) Kaykhusraw II (d. 1246) Kilij Arslan IV (d. 1266) Kaykhusraw III (d. 1283).	Ruins of the Mausoleum of Maussollos, one of the seven wonders of the world,Bodrum
Tomb of Sinan Pasha (Ottoman admiral) located at the garden of Mihrimah Sultan Mosque in the Üsküdar district of İstanbul	Xanthos Tombs,Kınık, Turkey	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

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.

[edit] United States

[edit] Uzbekistan

Samanid Mausoleum of Ismail Samani - the founder of the Samanid dynasty, the last Persian dynasty to rule in Central Asia in Bukhara	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