mausoleum

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

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

Huge crowds filled the city of Najaf for a procession that ended at the mausoleum of Imam Ali, the Prophet Muhammad's son-in-law and first Shia Imam.

From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026

She spoke during a symbolic visit to the eastern city of Nanjing, where she visited the mausoleum of revolutionary leader Sun Yat-sen, one of the few Chinese historical figures revered in both Beijing and Taipei.

From Barron's ● Apr. 8, 2026

Fishermen who are the descendants of the Heike dress in hemp and black headgear and proceed to the Akama shrine which contains the mausoleum of the drowned Emperor.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

“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

These mausolea were occasionally octagonal or polygonal in plan, surmounted by a dome, and cannot fail to remind us of the Etruscan tumuli.

From Architecture Classic and Early Christian by Smith, T. Roger (Thomas Roger)

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

From Pagan and Christian Rome by Lanciani, Rodolfo Amedeo

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

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 pair of cabins at the head of the field, numbers one and two, looked like his-and-hers mausoleums, big white marble boxes with heavy columns in front.

From "The Lightning Thief" by Rick Riordan