Mausoleum Mausoleum A Mausoleum is an external free-standing building constructed as a monument enclosing the interment space or burial chamber of a deceased person or people. A monument without the interment is a cenotaph. A mausoleum may be considered a type of tomb, or the tomb may be considered to be within the mausoleum. The word derives from the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus (near modern-day Bodrum in Turkey), the grave of King Mausolus, the Persian satrap of Caria, whose large tomb was one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. Historically, mausolea were, and still may be, large and impressive constructions
Shakiragha Mausoleum Shakiragha Mausoleum Shakiragha mausoleum () is a historical monument of the XV century. It is located in Balakhany village in the city of Baku in Azerbaijan. Shakiraga mausoleum is located in Balakhani Cemetery and was built in 1427–1428. It is also It is six meters from the Haji Shahla mosque which was built in 1385–1386. The information about the monument is limited. The monument was once destroyed by the Soviet as a religious monument. During an excavation in 1976, gold was found at its foundation. At that time, big earthenware pots full of gold were buried in basis of the