Memorial
A memorial was a building or monument or a piece of land on which people had died and which was considered sacred, or preserved as a way to honor those who had been killed in either a battle or war or in a brutal way but whose memory people wanted to preserve even if there were no bodies or the bodies had long since withered away due to natural environmental causes. ()

An obelisk was erected on Khitomer as a memorial. ()

See also 
 Kelvin Memorial Archive
 Nakan memorial

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Religious locations