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A mausoleum is an external free-standing building constructed as a monument enclosing the burial chamber of a deceased person or people. A mausoleum without the person's remains is called a cenotaph. A mausoleum may be considered a type of tomb, or the tomb may be considered to be within the mausoleum.
Lake View Cemetery is a privately owned, nonprofit garden cemetery located in the cities of Cleveland, Cleveland Heights, and East Cleveland in the U.S. state of Ohio. Founded in 1869, the cemetery was favored by wealthy families during the Gilded Age, and today the cemetery is known for its numerous lavish funerary monuments and mausoleums.
Floor plan of Abbey Mausoleum. Abbey Mausoleum was built in 1924 by the U.S. Mausoleum Company. [1] [2] The land was owned by the Syphax family.[1] [3] Maria Custis Syphax, the matriarch of the family, was the mulatto daughter of George Washington Parke Custis, grandson of Martha Washington and founder of the Arlington Estate on the banks of the Potomac River (later the home of Robert E. Lee). [4]
While preservation efforts, special events and preservation-focused fund raising continue, the Abbey is once again accepting interments. In 2019, the Columbus Cemetery Association, business owner of Green Lawn Abbey, entered an agreement with Memorial Properties, manager of the Green Lawn Cemetery, a nearby though unrelated business, to promote the mausoleum and oversee new sales.
The crematorium and various mausoleums were demolished. Many of the headstones were re-used to build a seawall at Aquatic Park . The Columbarium remained, [ 3 ] as well as interments below ground that were missed during exhumation, such as the mummified body of two-year-old Edith Howard Cook found in 2016.
See also Category:Monuments and memorials, cenotaph, monument, catacombs, cemetery, pyramid, list of Cemeteries, list of mausoleums, list of Memorials, list of pyramid mausoleums in North America. This is a list of tombs and mausoleums that are either notable in themselves, or contain the remains of a notable person/people. Tombs are organized ...
Mausoleum of Kunhi Koya Thangal Keramat Habib Noh The Keramat Iskandar Shah at Fort Canning site The mausoleum of Kunhi Koya Thangal, an Indian Muslim scholar from the Malabar , is located in the grounds of the Masjid Malabar [ 3 ]