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
Mausoleum of Saad Zaghloul Mausoleum of Saad Zaghloul The Saad Zaghloul Mausoleum () was built in 1927 to commemorate the late Egyptian revolutionary, Saad Zaghloul. It is located in Downtown Cairo, Egypt. Saad Zaghloul (1853-1927) spent most of his adult life trying to end the British occupation of Egypt and Sudan, which had begun in 1882. He became a national spokesman for Egyptian and Sudanese self-rule, and held the post of Prime Minister for a time. Highly respected, even by the foreign governors he opposed, an eponymous mausoleum was erected in his honor shortly after his death. Built of granite, the mausoleum's design echoes