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
Gulustan Mausoleum Inner part of the mausoleum hasn’t any ornamentation. Gulustan Mausoleum Ancient Gulustan Mausoleum () – is one of the significant monuments of Nakhchivan. It is a pearl of the stone arts of Azerbaijan. The mausoleums of Nakhichevan was nominated for List of World Heritage Sites, UNESCO in 1998 by Gulnara Mehmandarova — president of Azerbaijan Committee of ICOMOS—International Council on Monuments and Sites . The mausoleum was built in the 12th-13th centuries. Gulustan means "heavenly garden", because the mausoleum is located in a green hollow, not far from the Aras River and this place is called rose garden. The mausoleum