See also
- Tomb of the Unknown Soldier – about the concept, lists specific tombs by country
- List of papal tombs
This is a list of tombs and mausoleums that are either notable in themselves, or contain the remains of a notable person/people. Tombs are organized by the person buried in them, sorted according to origin of the person.
| Person(s) | Significance | Location of Tomb | Article |
| Khufu | Fourth dynasty pharaoh, reigned 2589–2566 BCE | Great Pyramid in Giza, the only surviving wonder of the world | Great Pyramid |
| Tutankhamun | Eighteenth dynasty "boy king" of Egypt, reigned 1334–1325 BCE | Valley of the Kings; tomb famously excavated by Howard Carter | KV62 |
| Person(s) | Significance | Location of Tomb | Article | |
| Askia Mohammad I | Songhai Empire king and dyanastic founder, reigned 1493–1528 CE | Gao, Mali | Tomb of Askia | |
| Person(s) | Significance | Location of Tomb | Article | |
| Members of the Baganda royal family | Muteesa I (1835–1884), Mwanga II (1867–1903), Daudi Chwa II (1896–1939), and Sir Edward Muteesa II]] (1924–1969), Kabakas of Buganda | Kampala, Uganda | Kasubi Tombs | |
| Person(s) | Significance | Location of Tomb | Article |
| Qin Shi Huang | Qin dynasty emperor from 221 to 210 BCE | Xi'an, Shaanxi, China | Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor, including the Terracotta Army |
| Cao Cao | Eastern Han dynasty warlord and politician, lived 155–220 CE | Xigaoxue Village, Anfeng Township, Anyang County, Anyang, Henan, China | Cao Cao Mausoleum |
| Emperor Taizong of Tang | Tang dynasty emperor from 626 to 649 | Mount Jiuzong, Shaanxi, China | Zhao Mausoleum |
| Emperor Gaozong of Tang; Empress Wu Zetian; 17 others | Tang dynasty emperor from 649 to 683; Chinese sovereign ruler from 690 to 705 | Mount Liang, Qian County, Shaanxi, China | Qianling Mausoleum |
| Yongle Emperor and 12 succeeding emperors | Ming dynasty emperors from 1402 to 1644 | 13 km due north of Beijing, China | Ming tombs |
| Sun Yat-sen | Chinese revolutionary, founder of the Kuomintang, and 1st President of the Republic of China | At the foot of the second peak of the Purple Mountain, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China | Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum |
| Mao Zedong | Communist leader of China from 1943 to 1976 | Tiananmen Square, Beijing, China | Mausoleum of Mao Zedong |
| Person(s) | Significance | Location of Tomb | Article |
| Emperor Shah Jahan and Arjumand Banu Begum (Mumtaz Mahal) | Wife of Mughal Emperor Shahbuddin Mohammed Shah Jahan | Agra, India | Taj Mahal |
| Nasiruddin Humayun | 2nd Mughal Emperor, ruled in India from 1530 to 1540 and 1555–1556 | Delhi, India | Humayun's Tomb |
| Emperor Akbar and his wife Mariam-uz-Zamani | 3rd Mughal Emperor, ruled in India from 11th Feb,1556–27th Oct,1605 | Sikandra, Agra, India | Akbar's tomb, Mariam's Tomb |
| Person(s) | Significance | Location of Tomb | Article |
| Nintoku | 16th emperor of Japan; world's largest mound tomb | Sakai, Osaka, Japan | Nintoku Mausoleum |
| Person(s) | Significance | Location of Tomb | Article |
| Dong Shou | See Anak Tomb No. 3 § Epitaph and its interpretation | Anak County, North Korea (Goguryeo) | Anak Tomb No. 3, Goguryeo tombs |
| Dangun | Founder and god-king of Gojoseon, the first Korean kingdom | Kangdong County, North Korea | Mausoleum of Tangun |
| Dae Heum-mu and 11 other family members | Royalty of the Balhae Kingdom | Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture, Jilin, China | Ancient Tombs at Longtou Mountain, Mausoleum of Princess Zhenxiao |
| Person(s) | Significance | Location of Tomb | Article |
| Genghis Khan | Mongol military leader and founder of the Mongol Empire | Beside a river near Kandehuo Enclosure, Ejin Horo Banner, Inner Mongolia, China; Khan's body is not there (it has never been found) | Mausoleum of Genghis Khan |
| Damdin Sükhbaatar | Revolutionary hero and founder of the modern Mongolian state | Sükhbaatar Square, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia (removed in 2005, body cremated) | Sükhbaatar's mausoleum |
| Wang Zhaojun | Wife of a Xiongnu Chanyu (ruler) | Beside a river in Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, China | Zhaojun Tomb |
| Person(s) | Significance | Location of Tomb | Article |
| U Thant | The third Secretary-General of the United Nations | Yangon, Myanmar | Kandawmin Garden Mausolea |
| Aung San | Founder of Myanmar | Yangon, Myanmar | Martyrs' Mausoleum |
| Person(s) | Significance | Location of Tomb | Article |
| Muhammad Ali Jinnah | Founder of Pakistan | Karachi, Pakistan | Mausoleum of Muhammad Ali Jinnah |
| Muhammad Iqbal | Poet, Lawyer, Politician | Badshahi Mosque, Lahore, Pakistan | Tomb of Muhammad Iqbal |
| Maharaja Ranjit Singh | Sikh ruler | Lahore, Pakistan | Samadhi of Ranjit Singh |
| Baba Shah Jamal | Sufi saint | Lahore, Pakistan | Tomb of Shah Jamal |
| Qutb ud-Din Aibak | Founder of the Delhi Sultanate | Lahore, Pakistan | Anarkali Bazaar [1] |
| Person(s) | Significance | Location of Tomb | Article |
| Ho Chi Minh | Vietnamese Revolutionary Leader | Hanoi, Vietnam | Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum |
| Person(s) | Significance | Location of Tomb | Article |
| (Timur) | Conqueror of much of western and central Asia, founder of the Timurid Empire and Timurid dynasty | Samarkand | Gur-e Amir |
| Sayyed Bahram Mausoleum | |||
| Person(s) | Significance | Location of Tomb | Article |
| Enver Hoxha | First Secretary-General of the Party of Labour and premier of the Socialist People's Republic of Albania | Tirana, Albania | Enver Hoxha Mausoleum |
| King Zog | President, and later King, of interwar Albania | Tirana, Albania | Mausoleum of the Albanian Royal Family |
| Person(s) | Significance | Location of Tomb | Article |
| Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill | Soldier, author and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom | St Martin's Church, Bladon, near Woodstock, Oxfordshire | none |
| Edward Elgar | Musician and composer | St Wulstan's Roman Catholic Church, Little Malvern, Worcestershire | none |
| Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip | Long-reigning Queen of the United Kingdom and her husband | St George's Chapel in Windsor Castle, Berkshire | King George VI Memorial Chapel |
| Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson | Admiral | St Paul's Cathedral, London | none |
| William Shakespeare | Author and playwright | Church of the Holy Trinity, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire | none |
| Queen Victoria and Prince Albert | Long-reigning Queen of the United Kingdom and her husband | Frogmore Mausoleum, on the private grounds of the Home Park, Windsor Castle, Berkshire | Frogmore |
| Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington | Soldier and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom | St Paul's Cathedral, London | none |
| Person(s) | Significance | Location of Tomb | Article |
| Seuthes III (first half of the 4th century BC) | Thracian king of the Odrysian kingdom (securely attested between 324 and 312 BC) | Shipka (town), Kazanlak, Stara Zagora Province, Bulgaria | Tomb of Seuthes III built in the second half of the 5th century BC, previously to the burial. |
| unknown (4th century BC) | Thracian king, probably of the Odrysian kingdom | Kazanlak, Bulgaria | Thracian Tomb of Kazanlak |
| Dromichaetes (c. 300 – c. 280 BC) | Thracian king of the Getae | Sveshtari, Razgrad Province, Bulgaria | Thracian Tomb of Sveshtari |
| Kubrat (c. 632 – c. 650/665? [2] ) | Kubrat was the founder and ruler of Old Great Bulgaria. | Village of Mala Pereshchepina (20 km from Poltava, Ukraine) | Pereshchepina Tomb |
| Kaloyan (c. 1170 – October 1207) | Tsar of Bulgaria from 1196 to 1207, younger brother of Theodor and Asen who led the anti-Byzantine uprising of the Bulgarians in 1185. | Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria | Holy Forty Martyrs Church (1230) |
| Hreljo (13th century – 1342) | 14th-century semi-independent feudal lord in the region of northeastern Macedonia and the Rila mountains. [3] [4] [5] | Rila Monastery, Blagoevgrad Province, Bulgaria | Rila Monastery |
| Neofit Rilski (1793–1881) | 19th-century Bulgarian monk, teacher and artist, and an important figure of the Bulgarian National Revival. [6] | Rila Monastery, Blagoevgrad Province, Bulgaria | Rila Monastery |
| Alexander I (1857–1893) | First prince (knyaz) of the Principality of Bulgaria from 1879 until his abdication in 1886 | Sofia, Bulgaria | Battenberg Mausoleum |
| Georgi Dimitrov (1882–1949) | The first communist leader of Bulgaria from 1946 to 1949 who led the Communist International from 1935 to 1943. | Sofia, Bulgaria | Georgi Dimitrov Mausoleum |
| Person(s) | Significance | Location of Tomb | Article |
| Ludwig van Beethoven | Musician and composer | Vienna Central Cemetery, Vienna, Austria | |
| Otto von Bismarck | First Chancellor of Germany | Bismarck Mausoleum near Friedrichsruhe, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany | Bismarck Mausoleum |
| Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Author and playwright | Historical Cemetery, Weimar, Thuringia, Germany | |
| William I | German Emperor from 1871 to 1888 | Charlottenburg Palace, Berlin, Germany | |
| Person(s) | Significance | Location of Tomb | Article |
| Caesar Augustus and other emperors of his family | First Roman emperor 27 BC – 14 AD | Campus Martius (now the Piazza Augusto Imperatore) in Rome, Italy (ashes now scattered) | Mausoleum of Augustus |
| Gaius Julius Caesar | Roman general and dictator assassinated 44 BC | Forum Romanum in Rome, Italy | Roman Forum |
| Gaius Galerius Valerius Maximianus (Galerius) | Roman Emperor from 305 to 311 AD | Thessaloniki, Greece | Arch and Tomb of Galerius |
| Hadrian and family members | Roman emperor from 117 to 138 AD | Rome, Italy (now the Castel Sant'Angelo; ashes now scattered) | Castel Sant'Angelo |
| Theodoric the Great | 5th–6th century Ostrogothic king, ruler of Italy, and regent of the Visigoths | Just outside Ravenna, Italy | Mausoleum of Theodoric |
| Person(s) | Significance | Location of Tomb | Article |
| Vladimir Ilyich Lenin | Russian communist revolutionary and 1st Premier of the Soviet Union | Red Square, Moscow, Russia | Lenin's Mausoleum |
| Josef Vissarionovich Stalin | Soviet dictator from 1920s–1953 | Formerly in Lenin's Mausoleum; reburied outside the Kremlin, Moscow, Russia | Kremlin Wall Necropolis |
| Person(s) | Significance | Location of Tomb | Article |
| Cyrus the Great | the founder of the Persian Empire under the Achaemenid dynasty | Pasargadae near the city of Shiraz, Iran | Tomb of Cyrus the Great |
| Darius I, Xerxes I, Artaxerxes I, Darius II and Darius III | emperors of the Achaemenid dynasty | Naqsh-e Rustam near the city of Shiraz, Iran | Naqsh-e Rustam |
| Artaxerxes II and Artaxerxes III | emperors of the Achaemenid dynasty | Persepolis near the city of Shiraz, Iran | Persepolis |
| Mausolus | Persian satrap of Caria | Halicarnassus (present Bodrum, Turkey); the origin of the word "mausoleum" – the tomb is now destroyed | Mausoleum of Maussollos |
| Abu Lu'lu'a Firuz (d. 644) | assassin of the second Islamic caliph Umar | Kashan, Iran | Shrine of Abu Lu'lu'a |
| Yaqub Leith Saffari (840–879) | ruler of the Saffarid dynasty | Shahabad (ancient Gondishapur) near Dezful, Iran | none |
| Amir Esmail Samani (d. 907) | ruler of the Samanid dynasty | Bukhara, Uzbekistan | Samanid Mausoleum |
| Qabus ebn Voshmgir (d. 1012) | ruler of the Ziyarid dynasty | Gonbad, Iran | none |
| Toghril Beg (990–1063) | ruler of the Seljuk dynasty | Rey, Iran | Tughrul Tower |
| Malekshah (d. 1092) | ruler of the Seljuk dynasty | Isfahan, Iran | none |
| Khwajeh Nezam ol-Molk (1018–1092) | vizier of Malekshah | Isfahan, Iran | none |
| Shah Shoja' (d. 1384) | ruler of the Mozaffarid dynasty and patron of Hafez | Shiraz, Iran | none |
| Gawhar Shad (d. 1457) | wife of Shah Rukh of the Timurid dynasty and founder of Gowhar Shad Mosque | Herat, Afghanistan | Gawhar Shad Mausoleum |
| Nader Shah (1688–1747) | Shah of Iran and the founder of the Afsharid dynasty | Mashhad, Iran | none |
| Karim Khan (1705–1779) | the ruler and de facto Shah of Iran of the Zand dynasty | Shiraz, Iran | Pars Museum of Shiraz |
| Naser ed-Din Shah (1831–1896) and Sattar Khan (1868–1914) | shah of Iran the Qajar dynasty that assassinated in the same shrine on May 1, 1896, and Persian freedom fighter of Constitutional Revolution | Rey, Iran | Shah-Abdol-Azim shrine |
| Reza Shah (1878–1944) | Shah of Iran of the Pahlavi dynasty | Rey, Iran demolished in 1979 after the Iranian Revolution | Reza Shah's mausoleum |
| Ruhollah Khomeini | Founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran and the leader of the 1979 Iranian Revolution | South of Tehran, Iran, near Behesht-e Zahra Cemetery | Mausoleum of Ruhollah Khomeini |
| Bayazid Bastami (804–874) | Persian mystic | Bastam, Iran | none |
| Sheikh Abulhassan Kharaqani (963–1033) | Persian mystic | Kharaqan near Bastam, Iran | none |
| Ali Hujwiri (990–1077) | Persian mystic | Lahore, Pakistan | Data Durbar Complex |
| Khwajeh Abdollah Ansari (1006–1088) | Persian mystic | Herat, Afghanistan | Khwaja 'Abd Allah Ansari shrine |
| Sheikh Ahmad Jami (1048–1141) | Persian mystic | Torbat-e Jam, Iran | none |
| Abdol-Qader Gilani (1077–1166) | Persian mystic and founder of the Qaderi Sufi Order | Baghdad, Iraq | none |
| Qotbeddin Heydar (1137–1221) | Persian mystic | Torbat-e Heydarieh, Iran | none |
| Moinoddin Chishti (1141–1230) | Persian mystic and founder of Chishti Order | Ajmer, India | none |
| Sheikh Abdolsamad Esfahani (13th century) | Persian mystic | Natanz, Iran | none |
| Sheikh Mohammad Bakran (d. 1303) | Persian mystic | near Isfahan, Iran | Pir-i Bakran |
| Amu Abdollah (d. 1316) | Persian mystic | near Isfahan, Iran | Manar Jonban |
| Sheikh Zahed Gilani (1216–1301) | Persian mystic and Murshid of Sheikh Safieddin Ardabili | Lahijan, Iran | none |
| Sheikh Safieddin Ardabili (1252–1334) | Persian mystic and eponym of the Safavid dynasty | Ardabil, Iran – Ismail I the founder of the Safavid dynasty is also buried there | none |
| Khwajeh Zeinoddin Shirazi (1302–1370) | Persian mystic | Khuldabad, India | none |
| Baha ed-Din Naqshband Bukhari (1318–1389) | Persian mystic and founder of Naqshbandi Order | Bukhara, Uzbekistan | none |
| Shah Nimatullah Vali (1330–1431) | Persian mystic and founder of the Nematollahi Sufi Order | Mahan, Iran, Iran | Shah Nematollah Vali Shrine |
| Sibaveih (760–797) | Persian linguist | Shiraz, Iran | none |
| Imam Bukhari (810–870) | Persian Sunni scholar | near Samarkand, Uzbekistan | none |
| Ebn-e Babveih (d. 941) | Persian Shi'ite scholar | Rey, Iran | Ebn-e Babveih |
| Rabe'eh Balkhi (10th century) | Persian poet | Balkh, Afghanistan | none |
| Ferdowsi (940–1020) | Persian poet | Tus, Iran | none |
| Avicenna (980–1037) | Persian philosopher and physician | Hamedan, Iran | none |
| Baba Taher (11th century) | Persian mystic and poet | Hamedan, Iran | none |
| Asadi Tusi (d. 1072), Anvari (1126–1189), Homam Tabrizi (1238–1315), Khaqani (1121–1190), Qatran Tabrizi (1009–1072) and Shahriar (1906–1988) | Persian poets | Tabriz, Iran | Maqbarat ol-Shoara |
| Abu Hamed Ghazali (1058–1111) | Persian theologian, philosopher and mystic | Tus, Iran | none |
| Ahmad Ghazali (1061–1126) | Persian writer and mystic and brother of Abu Hamed Ghazali | Qazvin, Iran | none |
| Omar Khayyám (1048–1131) | Persian poet | Nishapur, Iran | none |
| Sanai Ghaznavi (1080–1131) | Persian poet | Ghazni, Afghanistan | none |
| Sheikh Ruzbehan (1129–1209) | Persian mystic and poet | Shiraz, Iran | none |
| Nizami (1141–1209) | Persian poet | Ganja, Azerbaijan | Nezami Mausoleum |
| Attar (1145–1221) | Persian mystic and poet | Nishapur, Iran | none |
| Mowlavi (Rumi) (1207–1273) and Sultan Walad (d. 1312) | Persian mystics and poets | Konya, Turkey | Mevlana Museum |
| Saadi (1184–1291) | Persian poet | Shiraz, Iran | none |
| Hamdollah Mostowfi (1281–1349) | Persian historian and geographer | Qazvin, Iran | none |
| Khwaju Kermani (1280–1352) | Persian mystic and poet | Shiraz, Iran | none |
| Hafez (1315–1390) | Persian poet | Shiraz, Iran | Tomb of Hafez |
| Jami (1414–1492) | Persian mystic and poet | Herat, Afghanistan | none |
| Saib Tabrizi (1601–1677) | Persian poet | Isfahan, Iran | none |
| Mir Emad Qazvini (1553–1614) | Persian calligrapher | Isfahan, Iran | none |
| Sheikh Bahaii (1547–1621) | Persian architect and poet | Mashhad, Iran | none |
| Bidel Dehlavi (1640–1721) | Persian mystic and poet | Delhi, India | none |
| Kamal ol-Molk (1847–1940) | Iranian painter | Nishapur, Iran | none |
| Iraj Mirza (1874–1926), Bahar (1884–1951), Forugh Farrokhzad (1935–1967), Rahi Moayyeri (1909–1968), Darvish Khan (1872–1926), Ruhollah Khaleqi (1906–1965), Abolhasan Saba (1902–1957) and Qamar ol-Moluk Vaziri (1905–1959) | Persian poets, musicians and singers | Tehran, Iran | Zahir-od-dowleh cemetery |
| Sadeq Hedayat (1903–1951) and Gholam-Hossein Saedi (1936–1985) | Persian writers | Paris, France | Père Lachaise Cemetery |
| Salman the Persian | Persian companion of Muhammad | Salman Pak (ancient Ctesiphon), Iraq | none |
| Person(s) | Significance | Location of Tomb | Article |
| Mustafa Kemal Atatürk | Founder and President of the Republic of Turkey | Anittepe quarter of Ankara, Turkey | Anıtkabir |
| Person(s) | Significance | Location of Tomb | Article |
| K'inich Yax K'uk' Mo' | Maya ruler (ruled 426 – c. 437) – named in Maya inscriptions as the founder and first ruler of the pre-Columbian Maya civilization polity centered at Copán | Copán in Mexico | Hunal tomb inside of Temple 16 in the Copán acropolis; [7] |
| Person(s) | Significance | Location of Tomb | Article |
| Bahá'u'lláh | Founder of the Baháʼí Faith; considered by Baháʼís to be the most recent messenger of God. | Buried in the Shrine of Bahá'u'lláh outside of Akka, Israel. | Shrine of Bahá'u'lláh, Bahá'u'lláh, Qiblih |
| The Báb | Founder of Bábism, and predecessor of Bahá'u'lláh. | Buried in the Shrine of the Báb on Mt. Carmel in Haifa, Israel. | Báb, Shrine of the Báb |
| `Abdu'l-Bahá | Son of Bahá'u'lláh and leader of the Baháʼí Faith | Buried in a chamber within the Shrine of the Báb on Mt. Carmel in Haifa, Israel. | `Abdu'l-Bahá, Shrine of the Báb, Shrine of `Abdu'l-Bahá |
| Shoghi Effendi | Great-grandson of Bahá'u'lláh; Under the title of Guardian, he served as last singular head of the faith. | Buried in New Southgate Cemetery in London, U.K. | Shoghi Effendi, Directions to the burial site of the Guardian |
| Person(s) | Significance | Location of Tomb | Article |
| Muhammad | Prophet of Islām | Buried in Madīnah, Saudi Arabia | Masjidun Nabawi |
| Abu Bakr | First Companion, father in law of Muhammad, and first of the 4 Rashidun-Caliphs. | Buried in Madīnah To the Right side of Muhammad, Saudi Arabia | Masjidun Nabawi |
| Umar ibn al-Khattab | Second Companion, father in law of Muhammad, and second of the 4 Rashidun-Caliphs. | Buried in Madīnah To the Right side of Abu-Bakr, Saudi Arabia | Masjidun Nabawi |
| Uthman Ibn Affan | Third Companion, son in law of Muhammad, and third of the 4 Rashidun-Caliphs. | Buried within the former Mausolea of Jannatul Baqī‘ in Madīnah, Saudi Arabia | Jannatul Baqī‘ |
| Fātimah | Sunni Muslims believe that she is the youngest of 4 daughters and the wife of ‘Alī ibn Abī Tālib. The only daughter of Muhammad to outlive her father. The head of the only remaining seed of Muhammad till this day. Believed by Shia'a to be Muhammad's only daughter; while others are step-daughters. | Either buried within the former Mausolea of Jannatul Baqī‘, or within Masjidun Nabawi in Madīnah, Saudi Arabia | none |
| ‘Alī ibn Abī Tālib | Cousin of Muhammad, First Shī‘ah Imām and the only successor of Muhammad as accepted by Shī‘ah's | Exact location under dispute. Shia'a Records report Buried in Najaf, Iraq. Sunni Records claim exact location unknown somewhere in Kufa, Iraq. | |
| Hamza ibn Abdul-Muttalib | Uncle of Muhammad. One of the first converts and important figures in Early Islam. | Buried outside Madina Munawwara, Saudi Arabia. Unmarked grave, however, location is known in folk-tradition, and surrounded by security. | Near Archer's Hill, field of Battle of Uhud |
| Hasan ibn ‘Alī | Grandson of Muhammad, son of ‘Alī and Fātimah, and Second Twelver Shī‘ah Imām | Buried within the former Mausolea of Jannatul Baqī‘ in Madīnah, Saudi Arabia. Graves are unmarked, however, locations are known in folk tradition. | Jannatul Baqī‘ |
| Husayn ibn ‘Alī | Grandson of Muhammad, son of ‘Alī and Fātimah, and Third Twelver Shī‘ah Imām | Buried in Karbalā, Iraq | Imām Husayn Mosque |
| Khalid ibn al-Walid | Brilliant Military General, leader of Muslims Conquest of Syria. | Buried in Hims, Syria | Khaled Bin Al-Walid Mosque |
| Abu Ayyub al-Ansari | Companion of Muhammad. | Buried in Istanbul, Turkey | Eyüp Sultan Mosque |
| ‘Alī Zaynul ‘Ābidīn | Son of Husayn ibn ‘Alī and the Fourth Twelver Shī‘ah Imām | Buried within the former Mausolea of Jannatul Baqī‘ in Madīnah, Saudi Arabia. Graves are unmarked, however, locations are known in folk tradition. | |
| Muhammad al-Bāqir | Son of ‘Alī Zaynul ‘Ābidīn and the Fifth Twelver Shī‘ah Imām | Buried within the former Mausolea of Jannatul Baqī‘ in Madīnah, Saudi Arabia. Graves are unmarked, however, locations are known in folk tradition. | |
| Ja‘far as-Sādiq | Son of Muhammad al-Bāqir and the Sixth Twelver Shī‘ah Imām | Buried within the former Mausolea of Jannatul Baqī‘ in Madīnah, Saudi Arabia. Graves are unmarked, however, locations are known in folk tradition. | |
| Mūsā al-Kādhim | Son of Ja‘far as-Sādiq and the Seventh Twelver Shī‘ah Imām | Buried in Kadhimayn, Iraq | Al-Kadhimiya Mosque |
| ‘Alī ar-Ridhā | Son of Mūsā al-Kādhim and Eighth Twelver Shī‘ah Imām | Buried in Mashhad, Iran | Imām Ridhā Mosque |
| Muhammad at-Taqī | Son of ‘Alī ar-Ridhā and the Ninth Twelver Shī‘ah Imām | Buried in Kadhimayn, Iraq | Al-Kadhimiya Mosque |
| ‘Alī an-Naqī | Son of Muhammad at-Taqī and the Tenth Twelver Shī‘ah Imām | Buried in Sāmarrā', Iraq | Al-Askari Mosque |
| Hasan al-‘Askarī | Son of ‘Alī an-Naqī and the Eleventh Twelver Shī‘ah Imām | Buried in Sāmarrā', Iraq | Al-Askari Mosque |
| Saladdin | Army General and Leader of Ayyubids State. | Buried in Damascus, Syria | Near Umayyad Mosque |
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Egyptian Revival is an architectural style that uses the motifs and imagery of ancient Egypt. It is attributed generally to the public awareness of ancient Egyptian monuments generated by Napoleon's invasion of Egypt in 1798, and Admiral Nelson's defeat of the French Navy at the Battle of the Nile later that year. Napoleon took a scientific expedition with him to Egypt. Publication of the expedition's work, the Description de l'Égypte, began in 1809 and was published as a series through 1826. The size and monumentality of the façades discovered during his adventure cemented the hold of Egyptian aesthetics on the Parisian elite. However, works of art and architecture in the Egyptian style had been made or built occasionally on the European continent since the time of the Renaissance.
A monument is a type of structure that was explicitly created to commemorate a person or event, or which has become relevant to a social group as a part of their remembrance of historic times or cultural heritage, due to its artistic, historical, political, technical or architectural importance. Examples of monuments include statues, (war) memorials, historical buildings, archaeological sites, and cultural assets. If there is a public interest in its preservation, a monument can for example be listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Cultural Heritage and Conflict gives the next definition of monument:
Monuments result from social practices of construction or conservation of material artifacts through which the ideology of their promoters is manifested. The concept of the modern monument emerged with the development of capital and the nation-state in the fifteenth century when the ruling classes began to build and conserve what were termed monuments. These practices proliferated significantly in the nineteenth century, creating the ideological frameworks for their conservation as a universal humanist duty. The twentieth century has marked a movement toward some monuments being conceived as cultural heritage in the form of remains to be preserved, and concerning commemorative monuments, there has been a shift toward the abstract counter monument. In both cases, their conflictive nature is explicit in the need for their conservation, given that a fundamental component of state action following the construction or declaration of monuments is litigating vandalism and iconoclasm. However, not all monuments represent the interests of nation-states and the ruling classes; their forms are also employed beyond Western borders and by social movements as part of subversive practices which use monuments as a means of expression, where forms previously exclusive to European elites are used by new social groups or for generating anti-monumental artifacts that directly challenge the state and the ruling classes. In conflicts, therefore, it is not so much the monument which is relevant but rather what happens to the communities that participate in its construction or destruction and their instigation of forms of social interaction.
Hollywood Cemetery is a historic rural cemetery located at 412 South Cherry Street in the Oregon Hill neighborhood of Richmond, Virginia. It was established in 1847 and designed by the landscape architect John Notman. It is 135-acres in size and overlooks the James River. It is one of three places in the United States that contains the burials of two U.S. Presidents, the others being Arlington National Cemetery and United First Parish Church.
The City of the Dead, or Cairo Necropolis, also referred to as theQarafa, is a series of vast Islamic-era necropolises and cemeteries in Cairo, Egypt. They extend to the north and to the south of the Cairo Citadel, below the Mokattam Hills and outside the historic city walls, covering an area roughly 4 miles (6.4 km) long. They are included in the UNESCO World Heritage Site of "Historic Cairo".
Funerary art is any work of art forming, or placed in, a repository for the remains of the dead. The term encompasses a wide variety of forms, including cenotaphs, tomb-like monuments which do not contain human remains, and communal memorials to the dead, such as war memorials, which may or may not contain remains, and a range of prehistoric megalithic constructs. Funerary art may serve many cultural functions. It can play a role in burial rites, serve as an article for use by the dead in the afterlife, and celebrate the life and accomplishments of the dead, whether as part of kinship-centred practices of ancestor veneration or as a publicly directed dynastic display. It can also function as a reminder of the mortality of humankind, as an expression of cultural values and roles, and help to propitiate the spirits of the dead, maintaining their benevolence and preventing their unwelcome intrusion into the lives of the living.
The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, also known as the Seven Wonders of the World or simply the Seven Wonders, is a list of seven notable structures present during classical antiquity. The first known list of seven wonders dates back to the 2nd–1st century BC.
Demir Baba Teke is a 16th-century Alevi mausoleum (türbe) near the village of Sveshtari, Isperih municipality, Razgrad Province in northeastern Bulgaria. As part of the Sboryanovo historical and archaeological reserve, Demir Baba Teke is one of the 100 Tourist Sites of Bulgaria.
The Royal Mausoleum of Mauretania is a funerary monument located on the road between Cherchell and Algiers, in Tipaza Province, Algeria.
The Schoenhofen Pyramid Mausoleum is a tomb in Graceland Cemetery, Chicago. It was designed by Chicago School architect Richard E. Schmidt in the requested Egyptian Revival style as a family mausoleum for the Chicago brewer Peter Schoenhofen.
Egyptian Revival architecture in the British Isles is a survey of motifs derived from Ancient Egyptian sources occurring as an architectural style. Egyptian Revival architecture is comparatively rare in the British Isles. Obelisks start appearing in the 17th century, mainly as decorative features on buildings and by the 18th century they started to be used in some numbers as funerary or commemorative monuments. In the later 18th century, mausoleums started to be built based on pyramids, and sphinxes were used as decorative features associated with monuments or mounted on gate piers. The pylon, a doorway feature with spreading jambs which support a lintel, also started to be used and became popular with architects.
The Mashhad of Sayyida Ruqayya, sometimes referred to as the Mausoleum or Tomb of Sayyida Ruqayya, is a 12th-century Islamic religious shrine and mosque in Cairo, Egypt. It was erected in 1133 CE as a memorial to Ruqayya bint Ali, a member of the Islamic prophet Muhammad's family. It is also notable as one of the few and most important Fatimid-era mausoleums preserved in Cairo today.