Literature and the Arts

What is a mausoleum?

Link to this answer

CloseClose

Link to this answer

Share this credible answer with others. Simply paste this code into your blog or Web page:

<a href="http://qanda.encyclopedia.com/question/mausoleum-92576.html" >What is a mausoleum?</a>
E-mail this answer Link to this answer

... mausoleum , a sepulchral structure or tomb , especially one of some size and architectural pretension, so called from the sepulcher of that name at Halicarnassus, ...

Answer verified with
Get more facts and information about mausoleum . Or, view the full encyclopedia entry from The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition.

Similar questions: How are mausoleums built? Which cultures used mausoleums the most? What are mausoleums used for? What are some notable examples of mausoleums? [ Hide these questions ]

Related research questions

Related research articles

Mausoleum crypts put some life into cemeteries.
Newspaper article from: St. Louis Post-Dispatch (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service) ...above-ground mausoleum crypts. Two mausoleums being built...small, private mausoleums. And some cemeteries...offered public mausoleum space for anyone...general and mausoleums in particular...the walls of a mausoleum, and you would...
CORRECTION: Mausoleums Begin to Make a Comeback in U.S.
Newspaper article from: Saint Paul Pioneer Press (St. Paul, Minnesota) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News) ...of building private mausoleums, those elaborate stone...Co., the largest mausoleum builder in the country, only about 65 private mausoleums were built in 1985...a special panel on mausoleum building to its managerial...high-end granite mausoleums this spring and is...
Posh mausoleums: Boomers still living the high life in death.
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service ...1,000 private mausoleums were sold in the...a Pittsburgh mausoleum manufacturer...distributor of private mausoleums based in Plantation...percent of private mausoleum sales in the United...then, there is a mausoleum momentum, said...aging boomers view mausoleums as an attractive...
Vandalism in Va. Mausoleum Said to Indicate Satanism
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post ...investigating vandalism at an Arlington County mausoleum have discovered dead cats, pentagrams...found the macabre scene at the Abbey Mausoleum, in the Henderson Hall Marine Base next...Chase said. The marble-exterior mausoleum, built in 1927, fell into disrepair...
MAUSOLEUMS ARE RISING FAST
Newspaper article from: The Record (Bergen County, NJ) ...or entombment in a mausoleum. For those who operate...and boards are adding mausoleums. Although no one had...nine cemeteries have mausoleums. But they help provide...says. "More and more mausoleum crypts are being built...with more and more mausoleums opening and making...
See all results at HighBeam

HighBeam gives you access to newspaper, magazine, and trade journal articles plus press releases, facts, information, and biographies from thousands of sources.