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LIST OF MAUSOLEA

:''For cemeteries containing multiple notable mausolea, see also List of famous cemeteries''.
This is a list of mausolea around the world.
==Azerbaijan==

Pir-Hussein Mausoleum

Nizami Mausoleum, Ganja



==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==
Mao Zedong's Mausoleum


Ancient Tombs at Longtou Mountain


Mausoleum of Princess Zhenxiao

Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor, Xi'an

Mausoleum of Genghis Khan, Inner Mongolia

Mausoleum of Mao Zedong, Beijing, Tiananmen Square

Thirteen Imperial Mausoleums of Ming Dynasty Emperors, Beijing

Ming Xiaoling Mausoleum, Nanjing

Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum, Nanjing

Zhao Mausoleum, Jiuzong mountain, Shaanxi province
==Cuba==

Mausoleum of Ernesto "Che" Guevara
==Cyprus==

Hala Sultan Tekke
==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==


★ The Juselius Mausoleum, in the city of Pori.
==India==

★ The Taj Mahal, Situated in Agra. Taj Mahal was constructed by Mughal Emperor Shah Jahan in the memory of his beloved wife Mumtaz Mahal. The Taj is considered as the finest example of Mughal Architecture.

Mausoleum of Ghiyath al-Din Tughluq, situated next to Tughluqabad, the third city of Delhi and built by Ghiyath al-Din Tughluq himself

Tomb of Akbar

Tomb of Humayun
==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)''. Many such as Imam Reza Mausoleum in Mashhad are religious and from bygone eras. Some, such as the mausoleum of Cyrus the great carry national significance, and others, such as the Imam Khomeini mausoleum in Tehran are contemporary and carry more political weight.



==Israel==
Yad Avshalom, Jerusaelm


Bnei Hazir tomb

Cave of the Patriarchs

David's Tomb

Joseph's Tomb

Rachel's Tomb

Tomb of Samuel

Yad Avshalom

Tomb of Zechariah


==Italy==

Mausoleum of Augustus

Mausoleum of Theodoric

Castel Sant'Angelo, Hadrian mausoleum
==Mongolia==

Sühbaatar's mausoleum, Ulan Bator, Mongolia
== 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==
Mazar-e-Quaid - the Tomb of Jinnah; National Mausoleum of Pakistan


National Mausoleum of Pakistan (Mausoleum of the founder of Pakistan- Muhammad Ali Jinnah), Karachi City

Mausoleum of Muhammad Iqbal, Lahore

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

★ Mausoleum of the Sufi saint Ali Hajweri (also known as Data Sahib Ganjbaksh), Lahore

★ Mausoleum of Bibi Pak Daman, Lahore

★ Mausoleum of the Sikh ruler Maharaja Ranjit Singh, Lahore

★ Mausoleum of Emperor Jehangir (Ruler of Mughal Empire), Lahore

★ Mausoleum of Asif Khan (Father of Shah Jehan's beloved Queen Arjumand Bano Begum), Lahore

★ Mausoleum of Shah Rukn-e-Alam, (The grandson of Sahikh Bahauddin Zakaria), Multan

Tomb of Aurangzeb
==Poland==

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

Marasesti Mausoleum to the Unknown Soldier
== Russia ==
Lenin's Tomb, with wall of the Kremlin and Russian parliament behind


Lenin's Mausoleum, Moscow,Red Square (in 1953 - 1961 contained also Stalin's body)


==Serbia==

Kuća cveća (House of the Flowers) Where comrade Marshal Tito was laid to rest in Belgrade.
==Spain==
''Valle de los Caídos'', with the 150 metres high cross behind.


Valle de los Caídos, in San Lorenzo del Escorial.


==Taiwan==

★ The Tzuhu Presidential Burial Place, burial place of President Chiang Kai-shek, in Tzuhu
== Turkey ==
Anıtkabir, Kemal Ataturk's mausoleum at Ankara


Kemal Atatürk's Mausoleum, Ankara, Turkey



Ruins of the mausoleum of Maussollos, one of the seven wonders of the world.
==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 John Vanbrugh, 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.''

Grant's Tomb

Stanford Mausoleum

Miles Mausoleum

Queen of Heaven Mausoleum
==Uzbekistan==
Ismail Samani mausoleum in Bukhara.


Samanid mausoleum Bukhara

Bibi-Khanym Mousoleum, Samarkand

Gur-e Amir, Samarkand

The Mausoleum of Sheikh Hovendi at-Tahur (Sheihantaur), Tashkent

Mausoleum of Sheikh Zaynudin, Tashkent

Qaldirghochbiy Mausoleum, Tashkent

The Musoleum of Unus-Khan, Tashkent

Saif ed-Din Bokharzi Mausoleum, Bukhara

Bayan-Quli Khan Mausoleum, Bukhara
== Vietnam ==
Hồ Chí Minh mausoleum, Hanoi


Ho Chi Minh's Mausoleum, Hanoi

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List of cemeteries

List of memorials

List of tombs and mausoleums

External links



List of twelve mousoleums of Khiva

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