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

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

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

New Orleans resembles a giant mausoleum: “The past is so much a part of the present here and it’s unhealthy,” says a concerned friend.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 23, 2026

After the gates to the mausoleum had been locked and the family, friends, and gravediggers had retired, I was left alone among the flowers that had escaped Barrabas’s hunger and accompanied Rosa to the cemetery.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende

“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

Such men heed no trophies; they ask no splendid mausolea.

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

The richness and magnificence of papal mausolea increased in proportion to the decline in taste.

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

Jardines del Humaya, a sprawling cemetery on the outskirts of Sinaloa’s capital, Culiacán, contains several enormous mausoleums, including one made to resemble the Taj Mahal.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 17, 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 mare stopped, letting them survey the stones, the willow tree dangling its fingers over the rooftops of the two small mausoleums, the dusky grove of poplars beyond.

From "Bone Gap" by Laura Ruby