sepulture

Synonyms:

burial chamber, sepulcher, sepulchre

Examples:

Holy Sepulcher

the sepulcher in which Christ's body lay between burial and resurrection

Mausoleum at Halicarnasus

a white marble mausoleum 140 feet high built in 352 BC at Halicarnassus as a memorial to a king; destroyed in 1402

Taj Mahal

beautiful mausoleum at Agra built by the Mogul emperor Shah Jahan (completed in 1649) in memory of his favorite wife

Types:

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crypt

a cellar or vault or underground burial chamber (especially beneath a church)

mausoleum

a large burial chamber, usually above ground

monument, repository

a burial vault (usually for some famous person)

burial vault, vault

a burial chamber (usually underground)

charnel, charnel house

a vault or building where corpses or bones are deposited

columbarium

a sepulchral vault or other structure having recesses in the walls to receive cinerary urns

Type of:

chamber

a natural or artificial enclosed space

grave, tomb

a place for the burial of a corpse (especially beneath the ground and marked by a tombstone)