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 Mammadbayli Mausoleum Mausoleum of Yahya ibn Muhammad al-Haj () is a mausoleum of the 14th century located on uplands of Mammadbayli village of Zangilan Rayon of Azerbaijan. The mausoleum was built in 1305, by architect Ali Majid ad-Din on the Silk Road. In 1975, there was held cleansing works in underground part of the mausoleum in the result of which a sepulcher was found out. The mausoleum has a rectangular plan with dimension of 2,95x3,30 meters. Entry of the sepulcher is located in the western part. Width of a door is 76 cm, and heights is 88 cm. According to