The chapel, which may have originally been built as an imperial Roman mausoleum, features important 4th century Paleochristian mosaics.

The imperial mausoleums (türbe) are noted for their lavish use of İznik tiles.

The imperial mausoleum of the Komnenos dynasty, the Pantokrator Monastery was certainly decorated with great mosaics but these were later destroyed.

Designed in 1966 by Gordon Bunshaft, it was described by James Stewart Polshek, Mr. Clinton's architect, as "an imperial mausoleum."

The emperor built vast public works, including more than 270 palaces and an imperial mausoleum, which housed the tomb of the Emperor and the buried terra cotta army surrounding it.

Go-Kōmyō is among those enshrined in the imperial mausoleum, Tsukinowa no misasagi, at Sennyū-ji in Higashiyama-ku, Kyoto.

In the third century Mediolanum possessed a mint, a horreum and imperial mausoleum.

In 757 the coffin containing the mortal remains of the saint was transferred to an old circular building (an imperial mausoleum dating from the end of the 4th century) near St. Peter's.

Quinn knew right away that Ferguson was talking about the seven-thousand-strong army of terracotta soldiers discovered in an imperial mausoleum near the Chinese city of Van.

Years later the corpse was exhumed and reburied in the imperial mausoleum in St. Peter's Basilica, Rome.