Mausoleum

Mausoleum

A large and stately tomb, or a building housing such a tomb or tombs; originally the tomb for King Mausolos of Carla, about 350 B.C.

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mausoleum

1. A commemorative edifice for the reception of a monument; a cenotaph. 2. A sepulchral chapel to contain tombs.

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The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.

Mausoleum

 

a burial monument. The word derives from the tomb of the Carian king Mausolus (died in the middle of the fourth century B.C.) in the city of Halicarnassus. Mausoleums were common in ancient Rome and in medieval Eastern countries. In socialist architecture there is a new principle of mausoleum construction: the addition of a tribune, which imparts social significance to the mausoleum (Lenin Mausoleum, Moscow; G. M. Dimitrov Mausoleum, Sofia, 1949, architects G. Ovcharov and R. Ribarov; and the burial vaults of Sukhe Bator and Choibalsan, Ulan Bator, 1950’s, architects B. S. Mezentsev and Chimid).

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