What's the difference between mausoleum and sepulchre?

Mausoleum


Definition:

  • (n.) A magnificent tomb, or stately sepulchral monument.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He made his way to a spot on the cobblestones not far from the marble mausoleum housing the waxy corpse of Vladimir Lenin , and began to undress.
  • (2) Iran: 12 dead as Islamic State claims attacks on parliament and shrine Read more The mausoleum where Khomeini was laid to rest almost exactly 28 years ago, on 6 June 1989, is an enormous complex dominating the skyline south of Tehran.
  • (3) Inside the mausoleum, Cadorna is watched over by 12 statues of soldiers cut from the stone of the Val d'Ossola.
  • (4) Some startlingly grand privately owned buildings have repeatedly appeared on the annual register of the most important listed buildings at risk – virtually all the HHA properties are listed, and many are also scheduled ancient monuments or set in grade I gardens – including garden buildings and follies at Castle Howard in Yorkshire and Frogmore mausoleum, which holds some of the Queen's ancestors, in the grounds of Windsor Castle.
  • (5) Other projects have included Angola’s Agostino Neto Mausoleum , which is reported to have cost $55m, and two statues of Robert Mugabe thought to have cost Zimbabwe $5m.
  • (6) The prime minister bowed her head in respect after laying a large red and white wreath – the colours of Turkey’s flag – before Atatürk’s sarcophagus inside the imposing mausoleum on a hill in the centre of Ankara.
  • (7) His mausoleum stands in the square; his 4.6 metres (15ft) by 3.7 metres portrait hangs from the gate.
  • (8) There are inevitable differences of opinion about how best to commemorate the Soviet occupation; Grutas Park in particular has attracted criticism for creating a shrine to communism, rather than a mausoleum for it.
  • (9) It has a prehistoric, mausoleum kind of quality, its entrance marked with a ghost tree of empty bottles.
  • (10) We also want to try to improve their living conditions: through our activities we are able to create 140 jobs just in the reconstruction of the mausoleums, then you can add the mosques and the rest.” However, funds for the rebuilding are short.
  • (11) Fourteen mausoleums destroyed in 2012 have since been restored by the United Nations.
  • (12) It tackles various instances across three periods in the 20th-century when history has been called on to construct a heroic Persian identity – such as from 1925 to 1941, under the Pahlavi dynasty, when monumental mausoleums drew on ancient forms to honour historic national heroes, while simultaneously using the formal language of modern construction to project into the future.
  • (13) After staying up all night on Friday, he will put it on and make his way to Garang's mausoleum, where the independence ceremony will occur.
  • (14) Spain to make first exhumations from civil war mausoleum Read more The Fossar is relatively inaccessible from the city.
  • (15) The village in which he had been born was graced with a palace, and it was ordained that he should be buried in the nearby family mausoleum, echoing the royal custom of hilltop interment.
  • (16) Beyond that the similarities end, since Macrinus did not fall out with the emperor's son nor become a gladiator but died a rich man, honoured by his massive mausoleum.
  • (17) I have my personal favorites such as the Saad Zaghloul Mausoleum but again this is the architect in me talking.
  • (18) Their remembrance was perpetuated by the building of a mausoleum on which the lying image of the decreased ("le gisant") was chiselled.
  • (19) He is charged in the destruction of 10 historic buildings including mausoleums and a mosque in Timbuktu.
  • (20) Islamic radicals who overran Timbuktu in 2012 destroyed 14 of the city’s 16 mausoleums, one-room structures that house the tombs of the city’s great thinkers.

Sepulchre


Definition:

  • (n.) The place in which the dead body of a human being is interred, or a place set apart for that purpose; a grave; a tomb.
  • (v. t.) To bury; to inter; to entomb; as, obscurely sepulchered.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The Holy Sepulchre is the most sacred monument of Christianity.
  • (2) Perhaps it was a sort of optical illusion of "the kingdom of heaven", the post-apocalypse New Jerusalem described in the Book of Revelation as well as an approximation of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, according to travellers' accounts .
  • (3) The World Monuments Fund (WMF) announced on Tuesday that the gift from Mica Ertegun, the widow of Atlantic Records co-founder Ahmet Ertegun, would allow work to begin in earnest on the conservation project inside the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem’s old city.
  • (4) In 2003, after being awarded the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem: Knight Commander with star, and serving as Apostolic Administrator of the Diocese of Argyll and the Isles, he was promoted by John Paul II, becoming only the third resident Scottish cardinal since the Reformation.
  • (5) It’s really horrible.” Such is the damage from a sepulchral few years at Bloomfield Road.
  • (6) Patriarch Theophilos III told Maariv: "If nothing changes we intend to announce within a few days, for the first time in centuries, that the Church of the Holy Sepulchre is closed."
  • (7) Critics were less kind about Sepulchre , which she now says was rushed.
  • (8) Christian pilgrims en route to Via Dolorosa and the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, the site of Jesus's crucifixion, mingle with Muslims heading to the sacred Dome of the Rock and al-Aqsa mosque, and Jews intent on praying at the revered Western Wall, the last surviving remnant of the Second Temple.
  • (9) Explaining the reasons for London’s sepulchral quiet, Netherton tells Flynne that a lot of apocalyptic dominoes fell, but it began, of course, with the climate: “People in the past, clueless as to how that worked, had fucked it all up, then not been able to get it together to do anything about it, even after they knew, and now it was too late.” This is not futurology as satire, any more than a long-range weather forecast is satire.
  • (10) He ensured the Church of the Holy Sepulchre remained a Christian place of worship.
  • (11) The moment you set eyes on them, you know that these beautiful people will die, that they are already dead and gone, and yet they live in the here and now of this moment, brief and bright as fireflies beneath the sepulchral gloom.
  • (12) is a much sunnier picture, and more purely comedic than its sepulchral predecessor,” he said.
  • (13) The Church of the Holy Sepulchre covers the assumed site of Jesus’s crucifixion, burial and resurrection.
  • (14) One of the most venerated sites in the Christian faith, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, where Jesus is believed to have been crucified, buried and resurrected, is facing a financial crisis over an unpaid water bill in a row that could result in its closure.
  • (15) Jesus denounced his Pharisaic enemies as whited sepulchres, or shining tombs; and that is what the steam-cleaned marble frontage of St Paul's will become if the protesters are evicted to make room for empty pomp: a whited sepulchre, where morality and truth count for nothing against the convenience of the heritage industry.
  • (16) Maurice, meanwhile, is terrified of mouldering in respectable suburbia, dragging some poor virgin into the sepulchre with him.
  • (17) Today's saccharine sanctimony will try to whiten the sepulchre of yet another Pope whose obscurantist faith has caused pointless suffering; it is no defence that he was only obeying higher orders.
  • (18) In the sepulchral hush, you can hear the cheers from over on Centre.
  • (19) It speaks quite meaningfully to what it might mean to perform this play in an election year.” Intriguingly, King John will also be taken to candlelit churches which have strong ties to that time – Temple church in London , where several of the play’s key characters are buried, and the Holy Sepulchre in Northampton , a church frequently visited by King John and his court.
  • (20) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Christians pray at Christ’s tomb as experts begin renovation in Jerusalem’s Church of the Holy Sepulchre.