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
Barda Mausoleum of 2 meters. At the upper part the decahedron becomes a circle. The mausoleum was built of burnt and green-blue colored glazed bricks, which makes the word “Allah” for more than 200 times. Like in Garabaghlar Mausoleum, unglazed red facing bricks of this mausoleum are laid horizontally, but green-blue glazed bricks – vertically. Affluently decorated portals and the main architectural and compositional accents of the mausoleum should also be noted. Barda Mausoleum Barda Mausoleum () – is located in Barda, Azerbaijan. It is one of the rear monuments which reached us safely. It is located in a small square-shaped territory