Mausoleums

Mausoleum of Halicarnassus

In 353 BC, the great and tyrannical King Mausolus passed away. For more than twenty years, Mausolus ruled over the Greek state of Caria, which is a costal region along the Aegean Sea now occupied by Turkey. Mausolus’s wife Artemisia planned a splendid funeral and ordered a great burial site to be erected in his honor. However, not any burial plot would please the queen. She desired an architectural marvel unlike anything that the world had ever seen. Indeed, only the great Egyptian pyramids would rival the tomb’s grandeur. Within a mere three years, Caria’s best architects would create a mausoleum at the capital city Halicarnassus. One of the seven wonders of the ancient world was born.



Wikipedia:
A mausoleum is an external free-standing building constructed as a monument enclosing the interment space or burial chamber of a deceased person or persons. A monument without the interment is a cenotaph. A mausoleum may be considered a type of tomb or the tomb may be considered to be within the mausoleum. A Christian mausoleum sometimes includes a chapel.
Taj Mahal, in Agra, India is the world's most famous and most photographed mausoleum.



Lenin's Mausoleum:


The entrance to Higashi Otani Mausoleum in Kyoto, Japan:



Habib Bourguiba's mausoleum in Monastir, Tunisia:



Kumsusan Memorial Palace, Kim Il Sung's mausoleum in Pyongyang, North Korea:





Churches:

St. Peter's Basilica:








Smolny Cathedral, St. Petersburg:


Santa Prisa, Mexico:


Church of the Savior on Blood, St.Petersburg:


Isaac Cathedral, St.Petersburg:



St. Basil's Cathedral, Moscow:



Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, Moscow:



Notre Dame de Paris:



Canterbury Cathedral, England:


Leon Cathedral:



Sienna, Italy:



Bodega, California:

Mausoleums

Mausoleum of Halicarnassus

In 353 BC, the great and tyrannical King Mausolus passed away. For more than twenty years, Mausolus ruled over the Greek state of Caria, which is a costal region along the Aegean Sea now occupied by Turkey. Mausolus’s wife Artemisia planned a splendid funeral and ordered a great burial site to be erected in his honor. However, not any burial plot would please the queen. She desired an architectural marvel unlike anything that the world had ever seen. Indeed, only the great Egyptian pyramids would rival the tomb’s grandeur. Within a mere three years, Caria’s best architects would create a mausoleum at the capital city Halicarnassus. One of the seven wonders of the ancient world was born.