The Old Mostar Bridge, the giant Buddhas of Bamiyan, and now the Mausoleums of Timbuktu.
In October 2012, Timbuktu residents told CNN that Islamist fighters had attacked more mausoleums.
Nearly 87% of the dead in France are buried, in graveyards or family mausoleums.
So, clergy moved left, members moved out, and mainline churches became mixtures of union halls, encounter groups and mausoleums.
"Reports that the Mausoleums of Sidi Mahmoud, Sidi Moctar and Alpha Moya have been destroyed is extremely distressing, " she said.
It's a paupers field with some decimated mausoleums and no marked plots.
Its social elite commissioned Paris' finest architects to build their mausoleums in the image of the great palaces of the Recoleta district they inhabited.
BBC: The Recoleta Cemetery: Silent theatre and city of the dead
Towards the more eccentric end of the spectrum, there is PhilaMOCA, once a showroom for mausoleums and tombstones, now an art gallery, performance space and concert venue.
Likewise they flock to the mausoleum of Jalal-ud-din Rumi, one of Islam's most venerated mystics, ignoring on their way the secular mausoleums erected en masse by their Seljuk ancestors.
Most of them have forgotten that the words of the Prophet contain enough injunctions against ostentatious burials to make clear that headstones, let alone mausoleums, are out for the truly devout.
The uniquely Islamic religious character witnessed in the 'city of dead', is a consequence of the grouping of princes' and rulers' mausoleums close to the tombs and khanqahs (hermitages) of saints revered by them.
The destruction of World Heritage sites in Mali in 2012, especially the mausoleums in Timbuktu, sparked a wave of indignation across the world, helping to raise awareness of the critical situation facing the Malian people.
Back on the train and continuing north, at Prado station is the Iglesia Los Doce Apostoles (Church of the Twelve Apostles), and moments later just after Hospital station on the right is the Cementerio de San Pedro, containing a remarkable number of extravagant tombstones, sepulchral chapels and mausoleums.
The fledgling league is hoping to strike a chord with casual soccer fans by rescuing some of its teams from monstrous football stadiums--mausoleums to a soccer club playing to less than half capacity much of the time--and into soccer-only venues that bring fans closer to the action.
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