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
Mirali Mausoleum Mirali Mausoleum Mirali mausoleum () – is a mausoleum in Ashaghi Veysalli village in Fuzuli Rayon of Azerbaijan. The mausoleum was constructed in the beginning of the 14th century. The name of the mausoleum is famous in legends. It was located near an old road between Beylagan and Barda, a stone’s throw from the center of Fizuli Rayon. Mirali mausoleum is a tower-type mausoleum. Narrow cylindrical housing of the mausoleum with diameter of 5 meters and a conic ending of 15 meters heights is built from rows of thoroughly dressed and bedded stone. A well-composed housing with a conic marquee,