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Recent Examples of columbarium
Next to the chapel is a columbarium, a repository for the ashes of select members of the congregation.
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Ted Koppel, CBS News, 21 Jan. 2024
The challenges of life at Community First In the middle of Community First is a memorial garden with the ashes of dozens of residents who have died, their names etched into a granite columbarium.
—Lucy Tompkins Eli Durst, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2024
His grave is near the path dividing the southernmost section of the cemetery from the columbarium wall, where the urns are housed.
—David Reamer | Alaska History, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Sep. 2023
For lack of a better option, both were placed in the columbarium, two more Does for the cemetery, and another story waiting to be told.
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David Reamer writes about Anchorage history, from murders and neighborhoods to churches and chinchillas.
—David Reamer | Alaska History, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Sep. 2023
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Ted Koppel, CBS News, 21 Jan. 2024
The challenges of life at Community First In the middle of Community First is a memorial garden with the ashes of dozens of residents who have died, their names etched into a granite columbarium.
—Lucy Tompkins Eli Durst, New York Times, 8 Jan. 2024
His grave is near the path dividing the southernmost section of the cemetery from the columbarium wall, where the urns are housed.
—David Reamer | Alaska History, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Sep. 2023
For lack of a better option, both were placed in the columbarium, two more Does for the cemetery, and another story waiting to be told.
Ask a historian
David Reamer writes about Anchorage history, from murders and neighborhoods to churches and chinchillas.
—David Reamer | Alaska History, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Sep. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for columbarium
Noun
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The mausoleum complex also includes a free museum that is also worth carving out the time to explore.—
Kaitlyn McInnis,
Forbes,
22 Feb. 2025
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In 1631, Mughal emperor Shah Jahan commissioned the white marble mausoleum to honor his late wife, Mumtaz Mahal, who died during childbirth earlier that year.—
Gulnaz Khan,
AFAR Media,
13 Feb. 2025
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Nicholas Santiago’s projections give eerie embellishment to Stephanie Kerley Schwartz’s scenic design, so that the basic outline of Inverness Castle suggests at moments Dracula’s Transylvanian crypt.—
Charles McNulty,
Los Angeles Times,
19 Feb. 2025
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Centuries ago, in a cathedral in Poland, high-ranking archbishops were laid to rest in elaborate crypts.—
Irene Wright,
Miami Herald,
31 May 2024
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Spaces that formerly constituted the theater foyer and underground vault rooms were transformed into an expansive showroom spanning over three floors out of the total seven.—
Luisa Zargani,
WWD,
25 Feb. 2025
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Sullivan graduates with school records in all-around and uneven bars, while Phillip holds the records on floor and vault.—
Matt Le Cren,
Chicago Tribune,
24 Feb. 2025
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The plan calls for a portion of the catacombs to be restored and exposed, creating an accessible pathway to the past that leads into a new outdoor plaza.—
Justin L. Mack,
Axios,
15 Jan. 2025
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For centuries, The Courier Journal reported more than 100 years ago, their remains were kept in Roman catacombs alongside other martyrs who had been killed over their religious beliefs before being taken to a convent in Agnani, Italy, sometime around 1700.—
Lucas Aulbach,
The Courier-Journal,
24 Dec. 2024
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The following morning, a small group of us woke up early to explore the sandstone cliffs before being joined by the larger group to peek into tombs cut into the rock.—
Matt Dutile,
Travel + Leisure,
7 Feb. 2025
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As was customary, pilgrims who returned after visiting St. James’ tomb adopted an emblem.—
Virginia Raguin,
The Conversation,
21 Jan. 2025
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Thousands of homes and a sprawl of entire neighborhoods were transformed into outdoor charnel houses.—
Jeffrey Kluger,
TIME,
10 Jan. 2025
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For the Himalayan monks of the early teen centuries, the ideal setting for initiation was a charnel ground, where people left their dead to be eaten by wild animals.—
Jackson Arn,
The New Yorker,
2 Jan. 2025
Noun
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In the military section of the cemetery, Ukrainian flags flew over every headstone.—
Kim Barker,
New York Times,
20 Feb. 2025
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The iron pieces were found in cemeteries in Częstochowa, about a 95-mile drive northwest from Kraków, in southern Poland.—
Irene Wright,
Miami Herald,
20 Feb. 2025
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Internal excavations confirmed the site as a royal burial chamber on Tuesday.—
Francesca Aton for ArtNews,
Robb Report,
20 Feb. 2025
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The newer burials, from the 14th and 15th centuries, are inside the chapel, while the older burials, some 1,200 years old, are outside and are made of pits, sometimes covered by a wooden piece or stone arrangement, archaeologists said.—
Irene Wright,
Miami Herald,
19 Feb. 2025
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