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unusual facts about mausoleum



Abraham ben Mordecai Galante

Being wealthy, he erected a splendid mausoleum over the tomb of Simon ben Yoḥai at Meron, which is still admired.

Ak Astana-Baba

Ak Astana-Baba is a mausoleum that is located in the Surxondaryo Province of Uzbekistan The mausoleum is being considered for inscription as a UNESCO World Heritage site.

Alejo Lascano Bahamonde

Lascano's body rests in a sumptuous mausoleum in the General Cemetery of Guayaquil.

Antônio Peregrino Maciel Monteiro, 2nd Baron of Itamaracá

His remains were brought to Pernambuco in 1870, and, in 1872, he was buried at a mausoleum built for him, in the bairro of Santo Amaro, in Recife.

Architecture of Dhaka

His mausoleum, octagonal in plan and set upon a plinth in the middle of an artificial lake, is in Sasaram, and was completed by his son and successor Islam Shah Suri (1545AD-1553AD).

Bega Begum

Before starting, she made arrangements for building at her own cost her husband's mausoleum at Delhi.

Bonpland, Corrientes

It was originally called Santa Ana, but on May 10, 1858, was renamed in honor of the French naturalist Aimé Bonpland whose body rests in a mausoleum in the Cemetery of the Holy Cross of Paso de los Libres.

Buckminster

The Dysart Mausoleum which stands near the church was built around 1800 by the trustees of the estate of Lionel Tollemache, 8th Earl of Dysart, who died in 1798.

Buenos Aires Metropolitan Cathedral

The mausoleum also has the remains of Generals Juan Gregorio de las Heras and Tomás Guido, as well as those of the Unknown Soldier of the Independence.

Cathedral of Petrópolis

The church has Imperial mausoleum which has the remains of Former Emperor D. Pedro II, Empress Teresa Cristina, Isabel, Princess Imperial of Brazil and Prince Gaston, Count of Eu, in addition to the tombs of Pedro de Alcântara, Prince of Grão-Pará and his wife Countess Elisabeth Dobržensky de Dobrženicz, were brought here in 1939.

Collect Pond

The design, by John Haviland, was based on an engraving of an ancient Egyptian mausoleum.

Don Heffner

His interment was located at Mountain View Cemetery and Mausoleum in Altadena.

Emanuel Vigeland

The amazing acoustics of the mausoleum can be heard in a recording by American folk artist Jay Brannan, who was allowed a private visit during which he was videotaped singing his composition, Death Waltz.

Emir Qurqumas Complex

Built in 1450–1456, it is in a ruinous state but is a good example of a Mamluk mausoleum, with a domed funeral chamber, a Madrasa, a Sabil, a monumental door, and a minaret.

Faluzure

Faluzure's Mausoleum of Pain is located on the plane of Carceri on the desert layer of Minethys, home of hoarders.

Ferdowsi Millenary Celebration

The final event of the celebrations was the inauguration of the new building for the mausoleum of Ferdowsi in Tous, by the congress participants, with the presence of Reza Shah Pahlavi.

François and Michel Anguier

The chief works of François are the monument to Cardinal de Bérulle, founder of the Carmelite order, in the chapel of the oratory at Paris, of which all but the bust has been destroyed, and the mausoleum of Henri II, last duc de Montmorency, at Moulins.

François-Charles de Velbrück

He was buried in Liège and his mausoleum escaped being destroyed during the Liège Revolution in which his remains, unlike those of his predecessors, were not thrown into a ditch.

Friedrich Weyerhäuser

Weyerhäuser was buried in the family mausoleum in Chippiannock Cemetery in Rock Island, Illinois.

Givi Javakhishvili

In 1961 Givi Javakhishvili was heading the delegation of Georgian SSR in Moscow at Congress of the CPSU where he gave the famous speech demanding the removal of Joseph Stalin from Kremlin Mausoleum of Moscow.

John Crichton-Stuart, 3rd Marquess of Bute

Between 1868 and 1886 he financed the rebuilding of St Margaret's Parish Church, Roath, Cardiff, creating a new mausoleum for the Bute family with sarcophagi in red marble.

Landolin Ohmacht

His principal works are: “The Judgment of Paris,” in the royal garden at Munich; the statue of Neptune at Münster, and that of Desaix between Kehl and Strasburg; the mausoleum of the emperor Rudolph in the cathedral of Spa; the statue of Luther at Weissenburg, and that of “Venus leaving her Bath,” which is regarded as his masterpiece.

Luciano Rossetti Mausoleum

The Luciano Rossetti Mausoleum is a community building Designed by architect Philip Harmer and constructed by Gavin Constructions in 2003 in Springvale, Victoria.

Madrasa of Sarghatmish

The building's school, mosque, and mausoleum can be seen from Ibn Tulun's Spiral Minaret, while its entrance is on Saliba Street.

Mihail Cerchez

As a gratitude for his efforts toward the independence of Bulgaria, the Bulgarian people built a bust in the Romanian Soldier Mausoleum at Grivitsa.

Monumental Cemetery of Bonaria

Opposite is the Chapelle family mausoleum (1910) containing a massive marble statue of the Prophet Ezekiel, by Giuseppe Sartorio.

Mosque City of Bagerhat

The Khan Jahan Mausoleum or tomb is located on the northern bank of a water tank (a pond infested with crocodiles) called thakur dighi in Bengali language.

Mount Pleasant Cemetery, Newark

The cemetery is dominated by the marble mausoleum of John Fairfield Dryden, the founder of Prudential Financial.

Muraqqa

For a long time portraits were always of men, often accompanied by generalized female servants or concubines; high status women could not be depicted, and we have no likeness of Mumtaz Mahal, the wife of Shah Jahan, who supposedly built the Taj Mahal as her mausoleum.

Nakhoda Masjid

The mosque was built as an imitation of the mausoleum of Mughal Emperor Akbar at Sikandra, Agra by Kutchi Memon Jamat, a small community of Sunni Muslim community from Kutch.

Oliver Belmont

His mausoleum, designed by Richard Morris Hunt, is an exact replica of the Chapel of St. Hubert at Château d'Amboise in France.

Ostrogothic Papacy

While Simplicius still lived, the praetorian prefect, Caecina Decius Maximus Basilius, called together the Roman Senate, Roman clergy, and the leading local bishops in the Imperial Mausoleum.

Prince Zeid bin Hussein

Prince Zeid died in Paris on October 18, 1970, and is buried in the Royal Mausoleum at Raghdan Palace, Amman, Jordan.

Qalawun complex

Al-Nuwayri (an Arab Historian), has said in his book Nihayet al Irab (The Utmost Desire), that the Mausoleum was not intended to become a buriel site, but a Mosque and a school, and that it was first used as a tomb when he died, and hosted his body.

The Mausoleum of Sultan Qalawun in Cairo is considered by many to be the second most beautiful mausoleum, succeeded only by the Taj Mahal in India.

Raffaello da Montelupo

(Legend holds that in 590 the Archangel appeared atop what was then the mausoleum of Hadrian, sheathing his sword as a sign of the end of the Roman plague, thus lending the fortress its present name).

Raudat Tahera

He was succeeded by his son, the 52nd Dai al-Mutlaq Dr. Syedna Mohammed Burhanuddin who passed away on the 17th January 2014 and was laid to rest in this mausoleum by his son, Syedna Mufaddal Saifuddin, the 53rd Dai al-Mutlaq of Dawoodi Bohra community.

Revash

Other groups of sarcofagi also exist in La Petaca (Leimebamba); these particular sarcofagi are different from those previously mentioned; they appear in cliffs, like tiny houses stuck to the rock and their walls were not rendered in the same way as the other mausoleums.

Last century, Charles Wiener discovered the mausoleums of Utcubamba; the mausoleums of Revash in Santo Tomás were studied later by the archaeologists Henry and Paule Reichlen primarily because the roof of one of the mausoleums had collapsed, covering and protecting the cultural remains.

Ruprecht von Eggenberg

In his last will & testament of 1609 Ruprecht von Eggenberg had stipulated that he should be buried in the mausoleum on the Schlossberg to Ehrenhausen in Styria.

Sângeorgiu de Pădure

The Rhédey Mausoleum, now in ruins, stands on top of a hill north of the village, this is wherefrom the remains of countess Claudia Rhédey, wife of Duke Alexander of Württemberg was removed into the reformed church in 1841.

Shaikh Sama'al-Din Kamboh

The mazar of Hazrat Shaikh Sama'al-Din is located in Delhi where the Zubairies of Panipat used to assemble every year for offering Fateha in pre-independence days.

Sidney Lovell

A few of the Chicago businessmen that purchased crypt space in the newly built mausoleum were: John G. Shedd, president of Marshall Field & Co., A. Montgomery Ward of Montgomery Ward & Co., and many other Chicago area businessmen.

Takestan

Pir Mausoleum: The Pir mausoleum, alternatively known as Pir-e Takestan and Imamzadeh Pir, is a small domed Seljuk building dating from the 11th century and has since been restored.

Tomb of Nur Jahan

The mausoleum is located in Shahdara Bagh, not far from the tomb of Jahangir.

Walker Mausoleum

The sandstone mausoleum was built in the 1760s as the burial site for the families of Samuel and Aaron Walker and is now a Grade II listed building.

Waverley Cemetery

There is also a memorial to Juanita Nielsen (situated within the elaborate Mark Foy family mausoleum), who disappeared in mysterious circumstances in 1975, presumed murdered.

Wolff von Eggenberg

He died in 1615 in the fortress Karlstadt and was interred beside his uncle in the mausoleum of Ehrenhausen.

Zeitenlik

Stone from the Momin kamen quarry, which is located near the village of Džep in Serbia was used for building the mausoleum and crosses, granite from Kadina Luka near Ljig was used for the slabs, and the cement was from Beočin.


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