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

A room on the Taj Mahal—Shah Jahan’s mausoleum for his wife Mumtaz Mahal, and the Mughals’ most famous landmark—feels a little underwhelming: Nothing could replace being there.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 11, 2026

Then on Thursday, Khamenei will be buried at the Imam Reza Shrine, the mausoleum of Shia Islam's eighth imam and Iran's most important pilgrimage site, in Mashhad.

From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2026

He and Big Daddy flatten themselves on the mausoleum roof.

From "Enrique's Journey" by Sonia Nazario

“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

This is particularly true of the tomb mosques, situated in the mausolea on the east side of the city, and known as the Tombs of the Khalifs.

From Travels in the Far East by Ellen Mary Hayes Peck

We are their monuments; their mausolea is their country, and her growing prosperity the amaranthine wreath that Time shall place over their dust.

From A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 2, part 2: John Quincy Adams by James D. (James Daniel) Richardson

A Cuban tour guide at Havana’s historic Colón Cemetery, a popular visitor draw because of its elaborate monuments and mausoleums, said she lost her job this spring as tourism collapsed.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 27, 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

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

Since then, volunteers—also known as “gravers”—have stalwartly photographed and recorded tombstones, mausoleums, crosses, statues, and all other manner of graves for posterity.

From Slate ● Oct. 24, 2024

I turned and looked back the way I’d come: a prickle of marble spires, dim mausoleums, pale in the growing darkness.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt