Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Bamboo near the Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum. At the top of the mausoleum is the inscription "President Ho Chi Minh" in dark red jade stone from Cao Bằng. The mausoleum's door is made from precious wood from the Central Highlands. The front hall is adorned with pink-veined marble, providing a backdrop for the inscription "Nothing is more precious ...
Afterglow Vista (also known as the McMillin Memorial Mausoleum and Afterglow Mausoleum) is a mausoleum located in San Juan County, Washington, United States, near Friday Harbor and Roche Harbor. It is the final resting place of businessman John S. McMillin , his wife and children, [ 1 ] and one of the family's employees.
The Royal Mausoleum is a mausoleum for Queen Victoria and her husband Prince Albert, Prince Consort. It is located on the Frogmore estate within the Home Park at Windsor in Berkshire, England. It was listed Grade I on the National Heritage List for England in October 1975. [ 1] Built between 1862 and 1871, Albert, who died in 1861, was interred ...
Mausoleum. Model of the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus (near modern-day Bodrum in Turkey), the grave of King Mausolus, the Persian satrap of Caria from which the word mausoleum was derived. [1] The Taj Mahal in Agra, India, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Anıtkabir is the mausoleum of Atatürk, leader of the Turkish National Movement during the ...
Zawiya of Sidi Sahib. Coordinates: 35°40′56″N 10°05′25″E. View of the Zawiya's outer courtyard, with the entrance to the mausoleum (center right), the minaret (center), and the entrance to the madrasa (left) The Zawiya of Sidi Sahib, [1] [2] also known as the Zawiya of Abu al-Balawi or Mosque of the Barber, [3] is a zawiya (religious ...
Description. The domed roof of the Monteath Mausoleum. The mausoleum was to be sealed forever hiding the two angels who guard his tomb. The inside is lit by 48 green glass star-shaped lights in the domed roof. Outside two carved lions guard the entrance. one of the is sleeping and the other is awake. The building is constructed from ashlar ...
Western Xia mausoleums. The Western Xia mausoleums occupy an area of some 50 km 2 (19 sq mi) at the foot of the Helan Mountains in the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region of northwestern China, and include nine imperial mausoleums and 250 tombs of imperial relatives and officials of China's Western Xia dynasty. This burial complex lies some 40 km (25 ...
The team believes the particular care given to the deceased, coupled with the objects found near the body, suggest the person in the sarcophagus was the family member for whom the mausoleum was ...