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A memorial is an object or place which serves as a focus for the memory or the commemoration of something, usually an influential, deceased person or a historical, tragic event. Popular forms of memorials include landmark objects such as homes or other sites, or works of art such as sculptures, statues, fountains or parks. Larger memorials may be known as monuments.
TypesEdit
The most common type of memorial is the gravestone or the memorial plaque. Also common are war memorials commemorating those who have died in wars. Memorials in the form of a cross are called intending crosses.
Online memorials are often created on websites and social media to allow digital access as an alternative to physical memorials which may not be feasible or easily accessible.
When somebody has died, the family may request that a memorial gift (usually money) be given to a designated charity, or that a tree be planted in memory of the person.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Those temporary or makeshift memorials are also called grassroots memorials.<ref>Grassroots Memorials: The Politics of Memorializing Traumatic Death, eds Peter Jan Margry and Cristina Sánchez-Carretero (New York: Berghahn, 2011).</ref>
Sometimes, when a student has died, the memorials are placed in the form of a scholarship, to be awarded to high-achieving students in future years.
Memorials to persons or events of major significance may be designated as national memorials.
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The Haymarket Martyrs' Monument at the Forest Home Cemetery in Forest Park, Illinois
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The memorial monument of the 2011 airport disaster in Petrozavodsk, Republic of Karelia
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Memorial dedicated to the victims of the 2010 Polish Air Force Tu-154 crash in Smoleńsk at the Church of St. Roch in Białystok, Poland
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The Airborne Museum in Arnhem, Netherlands commemorates the liberation of the city during World War II
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St. Andrew Memorial Church in South Bound Brook, New Jersey, was built in 1965 to commemorate the victims of the Holodomor
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Namantar Shahid Smarak commemorates the Namantar Andolan
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The Victoria Memorial of Kolkata is an important monument of India
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The grave memorial for a ten year old disabled boy; Matthew Stanford Robison. Salt Lake City Cemetery Utah.
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Homemade memorial in Brooklyn, NYC featuring a photo cut-out of the deceased giving the middle-finger
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- Chiang Kai-shek memorial amk.jpg
- Mausoleum of the Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah medium View.JPG
Mazar-e-Quaid in Karachi, Pakistan.
See alsoEdit
- Lists of monuments and memorials
- Ghost bike
- Historical marker
- Memorial bench
- Memorialization
- National monument
- Public history
- Roadside memorial
- Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
- War memorial
- Culture of Remembrance
- Skull Tower
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