Mausolea

I was brought up in and around non-conformist places of worship like this, gaslit Evangelical mausolea in terraced city backstreets, bare-boarded Strict Baptism in hidden Chiltern villages. ❋ Peter Ashley (2008)

So, those shuttered shops, those haunted dealerships, and those concrete hexaliths become mausolea for a restless, ever-drivin 'nation. ❋ Unknown (2006)

(Iconium), “Multa seges sepulchralium quæ virorum ex omni ævo doctissimorum exuvias condunt, mille et unum recenset auctor Libri qui inscribitur Hassaaer we jek mesaar (Hazár ve yek Mezár), i.e., mille et unum mausolea.” ❋ Unknown (2006)

So then maybe they ARE mausolea of martyred pilgrims: shuttered malls as cryptoriums, grain elevators as ossuaries, and left-over wreckage as coffins parked in disused auto dealerships. ❋ Unknown (2006)

There are other mausolea with obelisks, apparently in the Egyptian style, a whole amphitheatre cut out of the rock with the remains of a palace and of several temples. ❋ Unknown (2004)

After the mausolea of Augustus, and Adrian, which I have already mentioned, the most remarkable antient sepulchres at Rome, are those of Caius Cestius, and Cecilia Metella. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Locke Drive, past Fountain Garden, the Garden of Remembrance, to a T-junction into Holly Drive, past angels, headstones, mausolea, modest squares and circles of slate and stone, like manhole covers in the immaculate lawn. ❋ Philip Jolowicz (2002)

They destroyed the mausolea and monumental tombs in the cemeteries, which they considered to be polytheistic, and desecrated the Prophet's tomb. ❋ Unknown (2001)

Imperial complexes which combined palaces and circuses, and sometimes mausolea, were built in or near most imperial capitals—Rome, Milan, Thessalonica, Antioch, and Trier, while Diocletian built a grand palace at Salona (Split) on the Dalmatian coast. ❋ Unknown (2001)

The rules governing the layout of the statuary along the spirit way were largely formulated in the Tang Dynasty, and some of the finest examples of statuary from this period decorate the 18 imperial mausolea found in the valleys of the Guanzhong Plain that lie beyond the Tang capital Chang'an (today's Xi'an) in Shaanxi province. ❋ Unknown (1999)

This necropolis contains eight mausolea belonging to Northern Song emperors, as well as the tombs of 22 empresses buried to the northwest of their husbands. ❋ Unknown (1999)

For them are the catacombs of Ptolemais, and the carven mausolea of the nightmare countries. ❋ Oates, Joyce Carol (1996)

Tombstones and more tombstones — not the imposing mausolea and sepulchra of the rich and noble which flanked every arterial road out of the city, but the gravestones of simpler souls. ❋ McCullough, Colleen, 1937- (1990)

_ -- Beyond the eastern wall of the city are the splendid mausolea erroneously known to Europeans as the tombs of the caliphs; they really are tombs of the Circassian or Burji Mamelukes, a race extinguished by Mehemet Ali. ❋ Various (N/A)

These were doubtless mausolea built over the ashes of princes or chiefs. ❋ Ellen Mary Hayes Peck (N/A)

This is particularly true of the tomb mosques, situated in the mausolea on the east side of the city, and known as the Tombs of the Khalifs. ❋ Ellen Mary Hayes Peck (N/A)

The pyramids of Egypt, the mausolea of the Lydian kings, the circular, chambered sepulchres of Mycenae, and the Etruscan tombs at Caere and Volci, are lineally descended from the chambered barrows of prehistoric times, modified in construction according to the advancement of architectural art at the period of their erection. ❋ Various (N/A)

Here, however, the top of the tomb is conical, not flat, as in our mounds, which would point to a later development of the double chamber which eventually blossomed forth into the lofty mausolea of the later Phoenician epoch, and the grandiose tombs of Hellenic structure. ❋ Mabel Bent (N/A)