List of memorials
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This is a list of noted memorials:
- See also: Category:Monuments and memorials for more articles
- Civil Rights Memorial
- Fallen Astronaut, located on the surface of the moon, is a memorial to all the astronauts and cosmonauts who perished in the "Space Race" (to that point in time).
- Grant's Tomb is a mausoleum with the remains of former U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant located in New York City.
- Great Pyramid of Giza completed in 2570 BC, is the tomb of the 4th dynasty Egyptian Pharaoh Khufu (also known under his Greek name Cheops).
- Gyrowheel Monument at Schönau an der Brend
- Ho Chi Minh's preserved body is in a glass coffin on display in his mausoleum in Hanoi's Ba Dinh Square.
- Homomonument
- India Gate war memorial or the National monument of India in Delhi, India was built in the memory of more than 90,000 Indian soldiers who lost their lives during Afghan Wars and World War I. It is now a memorial to the soldiers who fell in the wars since India's independence, including the 1965 and the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971, the Sino-Indian War of 1962, and those who fell in peacekeeping operations.
- National Taiwan Democracy Memorial Hall (Chiang Kai-Shek Memorial Hall)
- Jatiyo Smriti Soudho in Savar, Bangladesh.
- Jefferson Memorial located on the West Potomac Park, in Washington D.C. is a memorial to American President Thomas Jefferson.
- Kranji War Memorial in Singapore, is the burial ground for over 4,500 allied servicemen who died during World War II, and also commemorates over 25,000 servicement whose bodies were never recovered.
- Laboe Naval Memorial
- Lenin's Tomb, Moscow, Lenin's embalmed corpse is on display in a climate-controlled glass box. Also home to Joseph Stalin's body, later removed as part of destalinization.
- Lincoln Memorial located on the National Mall in Washington D.C. is a memorial to American President Abraham Lincoln.
- Maiwand Lion located in Reading, in England, and commemorating the Battle of Maiwand.
- Mamayev Kurgan
- Mao Zedong's Mausoleum located at Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China with Mao's corpse embalmed and on permanent display.
- Mausoleum of Yugoslavian Soldiers in Olomouc
- Memorial de la Deportation commemorates the 200,000 French victims of Nazi concentration camps.
- Memorial of Rebirth in Bucharest, Romania, commemorating the victims of the Romanian Revolution of 1989
- memorial stone to the victims of fascism at Hitler's birthplace in Braunau am Inn.
- Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin was opened in 2005 and commemorates the Jewish victims of the Holocaust perpetrated by Nazi Germany.
- Monumento Nacional de Santa Cruz del Valle de los Caidos
- Oklahoma City National Memorial
- Ostlandkreuz at Geislingen
- Ostlandkreuz at Schorndorf
- Piskarevskoye Memorial Cemetery in St Petersburg, where the victims of the 900-Day Siege are interred.
- Ruckenkreuz at Blaubeuren
- San Jacinto Monument
- Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hall
- Taj Mahal located in Agra in northern India, is a tomb constructed by Mughal emperor Shah Jahan in memory of his wife Arjumand Bano.
- Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery and many others, so named, around the world.
- Tzhu and Dashi Cemetery located in Tzhu in northern part of Taiwan, is a mausoleum built to temporarily place Chiang Kai-shek's cadaver waiting for relocation to mainland China.
- UFO-Memorial Ängelholm at Ängelholm, Sweden
- USS Arizona Memorial, located at Pearl Harbor, Hawai'i, The monument memorializes the resting place of 1,102 sailors killed on the USS Arizona during the Attack on Pearl Harbor.
- Victoria Memorial (India) is a memorial of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom, who also carried the title of Empress of India, located in Calcutta, India
- Völkerschlachtdenkmal, Leipzig, Germany, Europe's largest memorial
- Washington Monument is a memorial to the first President of the United States, George Washington
- World Trade Center Memorial
- Yad Kennedy, Israel, is a memorial to John F. Kennedy, President of the United States.
- Yad Vashem, Israel, is Israel's memorial to the holocaust. The section of the Righteous among the Nations specifically remembers non-Jews who risked their lives to save Jews during the Holocaust
- Vietnam Memorial, is a memorial in Washington, D.C, giving the names of all veterans who died in the Vietnam War.
[edit] See also
- Memorial Day
- Holocaust memorials
- List of cemeteries
- List of mausoleums
- United States submarines designated as memorials
- War memorial with a list of noted war memorials
