Memorial
A wall-mounted memorial to Mary Carpenter in Bristol Cathedral
Lightbox used as a memorial
A memorial is an object which serves as a focus for memory of something, usually a person (who has died) or an event. Popular forms of memorials include landmark objects or art objects such as sculptures, statues or fountains and parks.
Contents
1 Types
2 See also
3 References
4 External links
Types
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 and tributes are becoming increasingly popular especially with the increase in natural burial where the laying of gravestones, or memorial plaques, is often not permitted.[1]
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.[2] Those temporary or makeshift memorials are also called grassroots memorials.[3]
Sometimes, when a high school student has died, the memorials are placed in the form of a scholarship, to be awarded to high-achieving students in future years.
The Haymarket Martyrs' Monument at the Forest Home Cemetery in Forest Park, Illinois
Maqam Echahid in Algiers, Algeria
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
The Airborne Museum in Arnhem, Netherlands commemorates the liberation of the city during World War II
A ghost bike roadside memorial in Berlin
St. Andrew Memorial Church in South Bound Brook, New Jersey, was built in 1965 to commemorate the victims of the Holodomor
Namantar Shahid Smarak commemorates the Namantar Andolan
The Victoria Memorial of Kolkata is an important monument of India
See also
- Bell Telephone Memorial
- Ghost bike
- Historical marker
- List of memorials
- Memorial bench
- Monument
- National memorial
- National monument
- Public history
- Roadside memorial
- Viewlogy
- War memorial
- Culture of Remembrance
References
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^ "Commemorative trees". National Trust. 1 September 1997. Archived from the original on 10 December 2010. Retrieved 4 December 2010.
^ Grassroots Memorials: The Politics of Memorializing Traumatic Death, eds Peter Jan Margry and Cristina Sánchez-Carretero (New York: Berghahn, 2011).
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