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These burial places of British royalty record the known graves of monarchs who have reigned in some part of the British Isles (currently includes only the monarchs of Scotland, England, native princes of Wales to 1283, or monarchs of Great Britain, and the United Kingdom), as well as members of their royal families.
M. Makam Keramat Tujuh; Makam Papan Tinggi; Maqam (shrine) Maqam an-Nabi Yusha' Mastaba; Matzevah; Mausoleum; Mausoleum of Surgi Mufti; Mausoleo Schilizzi; Maymūnah Stone
Honouring individuals buried in Westminster Abbey has a long tradition. Over 3,300 people are buried or commemorated in the abbey. [1] For much of the abbey's history, most of the people buried there besides monarchs were people with a connection to the church – either ordinary locals or the monks of the abbey itself, who were generally buried without surviving markers. [2]
Royal families of Hawaii 2261 Nuuanu Avenue in Honolulu, Hawaii: Royal Mausoleum of Hawaii: Abraham Lincoln: 16th President of the United States Oak Ridge Cemetery, Springfield, Illinois: Lincoln's Tomb: William McKinley: 25th President of the United States Canton, Ohio: McKinley Memorial Mausoleum: Leland Stanford: Founder of Stanford University
Bismarck Mausoleum in Friedrichsruh Bismarck's sarcophagus. The Bismarck Mausoleum is the mausoleum of Prince Otto von Bismarck and his wife Johanna von Puttkamer.It is on the Schneckenberg hill just outside Friedrichsruh, Schleswig-Holstein, in northern Germany.
Gradually these became full high-relief effigies, usually recumbent as in death, and, by the 14th century, with hands together in prayer. In general, such monumental effigies were carved in stone, marble or wood, or cast in bronze or brass.
Queen Victoria's Royal Mausoleum at Frogmore and the Royal Burial Ground (front). The Royal Burial Ground is a cemetery used by the British royal family.Consecrated on 23 October 1928 by the Bishop of Oxford, it is adjacent to the Royal Mausoleum, which was built in 1862 to house the tomb of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert.
The lesser tombstones of other dynasty members are scattered around the room. Curiously, the marble inscription plaque embedded in the back wall of the chamber is dedicated to Muhammad al-Shaykh (who is buried in the other mausoleum across the gardens to the east), and was apparently moved here from his tombstone in the eastern mausoleum.