Sükhbaatar's mausoleum

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This article is about the former burial monument. For other uses, see Sükhbaatar.

Sükhbaatar's Mausoleum in the time it was still located in front of the Government House

In Mongolia's capital Ulaanbaatar, on the northern side of Sükhbaatar square stood Sükhbaatar's Mausoleum, the burial monument for Damdin Sükhbaatar and Khorloogiin Choibalsan. The mausoleum was removed in 2005 to make place for a hall dedicated to Genghis Khan. Damdin Sükhbaatar was a Mongolian war hero in the early 20th-century when Mongolia was fighting for its independence. The building was erected after Choibalsans death in 1952. Sükhbaatar had been buried at the Altan Ölgii in 1923, but was exhumed and reinterred into the mausoleum.^[1] The mausoleum resembled the shape of Lenin's Mausoleum but differed in color.

The corpses of both rulers were again exhumed, ritually burned, and the ashes entombed at Altan Ölgii in 2005, under supervision of the Buddhist clergy.