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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
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Taj Mahal Agra, India Situated on the south bank of the Yamuna River, the ivory-domed Taj Mahal is a mausoleum commemorating romance.—
Gulnaz Khan,
AFAR Media,
13 Feb. 2025
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The rebels, in one of their first acts, stormed the mausoleum of Hafez al-Assad and set his coffin ablaze.—
Robin Wright,
The New Yorker,
15 Dec. 2024
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Read Next World Royal treasures hidden in cathedral crypt were lost for decades — until now.—
Irene Wright,
Miami Herald,
17 Jan. 2025
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Additionally, the candelabra will appear a third time, materializing in a cemetery crypt in the ride’s final act.—
Todd Martens,
Los Angeles Times,
17 Jan. 2025
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The documentary included both vault footage and interviews with more than 70 people.—
Rachel DeSantis,
People.com,
7 Feb. 2025
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The 18-person dining room table and the back wall of the glass wine vault are carved from Patagonia-Brazilian onyx.—
Ray Parisi,
CNBC,
7 Feb. 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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Having dirtied himself in the catacombs beneath the papacy’s home, our scrappy archaeologist emerges into none other than a resplendent re-creation of the Sistine Chapel.—
Lewis Gordon,
Vulture,
18 Dec. 2024
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In 2022, for instance, Martinez and her team at the University of Santo Domingo discovered a 6.5-foot-tall, 4,300-foot-long tunnel some 40 feet beneath the temple while searching for the tomb.—
Eli Wizevich,
Smithsonian Magazine,
28 Jan. 2025
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The king later did public penance for this at Becket’s tomb in Canterbury.—
Joanne M. Pierce,
The Conversation,
28 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
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Mass of Christian Burial will be at 11 a.m., Wednesday, Feb. 21, at St. Anastasia Catholic Church in Hutchinson, with interment in the church cemetery.—
Contributed Content,
Twin Cities,
7 Feb. 2025
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Members of the Congolese Red Cross and civil protection workers bury dozens of victims of the recent clashes at a cemetery in Goma on Tuesday.—
Reuters,
NBC News,
6 Feb. 2025
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Another jar was part of a ceremonial burial for Mr. Halsey in 2021.—
Essence,
Essence,
8 Feb. 2025
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Mass of Christian burial will be 11 a.m. Friday, Feb. 9, at Church of St. Philip in Litchfield.—
Contributed Content,
Twin Cities,
7 Feb. 2025
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“Columbarium.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/columbarium. Accessed 22 Feb. 2025.
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