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List of mausoleums

This is a list of mausoleums around the world.

Azerbaijan Republic

*Pir-Hussein Mausoleum
*Nizami Mausoleum, Ganja

Bulgaria

*Georgi Dimitrov Mausoleum (demolished in 1999)

China

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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

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

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.

Image:AbdolSamad Natanz.jpg|Tomb of Abdol-samad, built in 1304CE in Natanz.Image:GonbadSabz.jpg|Gunbad-i Sabz mausoleums in Qom.Image:Danielburial2.jpg|Mausoleum of Daniel of the Bible in Susa, Iran.Image:Abu lulu tomb.jpg|Mausoleum of Abu-Lu'lu'ah, the assassin of Islam's second caliph, Omar ibn al-Khattab, Kashan.

Italy

*Mausoleum of Augustus
*Mausoleum of Theodoric
*Castel Sant'Angelo, Hadrian mausoleum

Mongolia

*Sühbaatar's mausoleum, Ulan Bator, Mongolia

North Korea

*Kim Il Sung's Mausoleum, Pyongyang, North Korea

Pakistan

Mazar-e-Quaid - the mausoleum of Jinnah

* Mazar-e-Quaid (Mausoleum of the founder of Pakistan- Muhammad Ali Jinnah), Karachi
*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

Poland

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

Romania

*Marasesti Mausoleum to the Unknown Soldier

Russia

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Lenin's Tomb, with wall of the Kremlin and Russian parliament behind

*Lenin's Mausoleum, Moscow,Red Square

Spain

Valle de los Caídos, with the 150 metres high cross behind.

*Valle de los Caídos, in San Lorenzo del Escorial.

Turkey

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Anıtkabir, Kemal Ataturk's mausoleum at Ankara

*Kemal Atatürk's Mausoleum, Ankara, Turkey

*Mausoleum of Maussollos, one of the seven wonders of the world.

United Kingdom

*Frogmore Mausoleum, burial place of Victoria and Albert
*Highgate Cemetery, London, has an impressive collection of Victorian mausoleums
*Kensal Green Cemetery, London, the oldest English cemetery of its type still in operation, has many elaborate Victorian mausoleums, including those of William Makepeace Thackeray and Anthony Trollope.
*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.

United States

See also List of pyramid mausoleums in North America.
*Grant's Tomb
*Stanford Mausoleum
*Miles 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

Vietnam

Há»" Chí Minh mausoleum, Hanoi

*Ho Chi Minh's Mausoleum Hanoi, Ba Dinh Square

See also

*List of cemeteries
*List of memorials

External links

*List of twelve mousoleums of Khiva
* Smith Eliot's Images of the Sunrise/Sunset Mausoleum in Portland, OR



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