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
Mammadbayli Mausoleum rules of Islam the entry of the mausoleum shouldn’t exceed 120 meters, because entering person should revere of a deceased bowing down. In medieval centuries such kinds of mausoleums were built on graves of a feudal nobility and well-known people. At present the upper side of the mausoleum is slightly destroyed. Upper side of the mausoleum, which was built in form eight-edged prism, is complemented with a roof in form of a pyramid. Its walls are thoroughly revetted with sharpened stones from inside and outside. But its sepulcher is quadrangular from the inner side. The door of the mausoleum is