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Mausoleum

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Mausoleum.
Taj Mahal, in Agra, Indie is the warld's maist famous an maist photographed mausoleum.

A mausoleum[1] is a freemit free-staundin biggin constructit as a monument enclosin the interment space or burial chamber o a deceased person or fowk. A monument wioot the interment is a cenotaph. A mausoleum mey be considered a type o tomb or the tomb mey be considered tae be within the mausoleum. A Christian mausoleum sometimes includes a chapel.

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  1. The plurals mausoleums and mausolea are equally correct in English.