mausoleum

He’s the reason lower Manhattan is today a lively, thriving urban environment rather than an urban-planning mausoleum.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

The bronze crypt plate mounted at the mausoleum had the star’s name engraved on it before she died, alongside her husband’s name and a depiction of her Tennessee home.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 31, 2026

And Stalin himself, whose body was initially interred in the same mausoleum that housed the embalmed Vladimir Lenin, was subjected to criticism for some of his evil deeds.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026

His mausoleum, which dates to the 9th Century and has a towering golden dome and minarets, is visited by millions of pilgrims each year.

From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2026

For two days they wander around the marble mausoleum that glows gray and yellow and pink and orange depending on the light.

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri

“What does it mean to have some lone surviving mausolea in the middle of a massive jumble of roads and traffic?”

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 10, 2023

"It looks like a large number of villa buildings, along with a probable bath house and perhaps even mausolea and a chapel," said Dr Gater.

From BBC ● Mar. 4, 2022

The National Museum of African American History and Culture now stands as a glittering golden crown on the Mall, in Washington DC, a brilliant foil to the neighbouring rows of white stone mausolea.

From The Guardian ● Oct. 28, 2017

In looking at these humble graves we cannot help comparing them with the great mausolea of contemporary emperors.

From Pagan and Christian Rome by Rodolfo Amedeo Lanciani

The Romans, says Pausanias, called all their most magnificent tombs mausolea after this monument to Mausolua, and hence our modern term mausoleum.

From The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 New Edition by Alexander Pope

Many visit the Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, which contains Irving’s grave, Mr. Ocker notes, as well as the remains of Carnegies, Rockefellers and Astors, among “lush hills studded with old stones, mausoleums, and statues.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026

Conservative governor Tarcisio de Freitas on Tuesday signed the so-called Bob Coveiro law that will allow pets to be buried in family graves or mausoleums across Sao Paulo state.

From Barron's ● Feb. 10, 2026

Teddi Mellencamp said that’s when she started making demands, like what would go on her tombstone — if tombstones even exist in mausoleums.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 10, 2025

Ahmad al-Faqi al-Mahdi admitted to leading fighters who destroyed historic mausoleums at the world heritage site in Mali in 2012.

From BBC ● Nov. 20, 2024

The Caddo had a taste for monumental architecture: public plazas, ceremonial platforms, mausoleums.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann