Tomb

Overview

• Architectural shrines – in Christianity, an architectural shrine above a saint's first place of burial, as opposed to a similar shrine on which stands a reliquary or feretory into which the saint's remains have been transferred
• Burial vault – a stone or brick-lined underground space for multiple burials, originally vaulted, often privately owned for specific family groups; usually beneath a religious building such as a church or in a churchyard or cemetery
• Church monument – within a church may be a place of interment, but this is unusual; it may more commonly stand over the grave or burial vault rather than containing the actual body and therefore is not a tomb.
• Crypts – often, though not always, for interment; similar to burial vaults but usually for more general public interment
• Hypogeum tomb - stone-built underground structure for interment, such as the :Category:Tombs of ancient Egypt|tombs of ancient Egypt
• Kokh – a rectangular rock-cut sloping space, running inward, like tunnels into rock, sufficiently high and wide to permit the admission of a corpse
• Martyrium – Mausoleum for the remains of martyrs, such as San Pietro in Montorio
• Mausoleum – external free-standing structure, above ground, acting as both monument and place of interment, usually for individuals or a family group
• Megalithic tomb – prehistoric place of interment, often for large communities, constructed of large stones and originally covered with an earthen mound
• Ohel, a structure built around the grave or graves of Hasidic Rebbes, prominent rabbis, Jewish community leaders, and biblical figures in Israel and the diaspora
• Pillar tomb – a monumental grave. Its central feature is a single, prominent pillar or column, often made of stone.
• Rock-cut tomb – a form widespread in the ancient world, in which the tomb is not built but carved out of the rock and can be a free-standing building but is more commonly a cave, which may be extensive and may or may not have an elaborate facade.
• Sarcophagus – a stone container for a body or coffin, often decorated and perhaps part of a monument; it may stand within a religious building or greater tomb or mausoleum.
• Sepulchre – a cavernous rock-cut space for interment, generally in the Jewish or Christian faiths.
• Samadhi – in India a tomb for a deceased saint that often has a larger building over it as a shrine
• Other forms of archaeological "tombs", such as ship burials
• Tumulus – A mound of earth and stones raised over a grave or graves. Tumuli are also known as barrows, burial mounds, Hügelgräber or kurgans', and can be found throughout much of the world. A cairn, might also be originally a tumulus. A long barrow is a long tumulus, usually for numbers of burials.