columbarium

One or a series of niches, intended to receive human remains. (See illustration p. 232.) columella Same as colonette.

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 It might be outdated or ideologically biased.

Columbarium

a depository for urns containing ashes after a cremation.

In ancient Rome they were specially erected buildings with rows of semicircular niches. An ancient Roman columbarium, built in the first century B.C. under Augustus, was discovered near Rome, on the Appian Way. Today cemeteries and crematoriums are equipped with columbaria.

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Pingtung County Government is behind a project to improve funeral facilities and build new columbariums.

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Hudson's new columbarium can comfortably host as many as 88 urns, and Hudson family members, one local news report notes, have taken to calling the million-dollar structure "The Inn."

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In a corner of the obscure Berkshire churchyard of St Mary, Wargrave, lies the earliest mausoleum or, more precisely, columbarium by Sir Edwin Lutyens.

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The rate of in-ground burials has decreased slightly since the 1980 opening of the columbarium complex, which will eventually provide space for up to 100,000 cremated remains.

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There was some concern about the tapestries on the north wall, and about the columbarium. The organ appeared to be undamaged.

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These impassive structures house offices, priests' quarters, meeting spaces and a columbarium. In signature Ando fashion, light gleams off bare polished concrete walls.

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