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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 or works of art such as sculptures, statues or fountains and parks. Larger memorials may be known as monuments.

Types

The most common type of memorial is the Headstone, gravestone or the memorial plaque. Also common are War memorial, 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 Charitable organization, charity, or that a tree be planted in memory of the person. Those temporary or makeshift memorials are also called grassroots memorials.''Grassroots Memorials: The Politics of Memorializing Traumatic Death'', eds Peter Jan Margry and Cristina Sánchez-Carretero (New York: Berghahn, 2011).

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''.

Haymarket-martyrs-memorial-Forest-Home-Cemetery-IL.jpg, The ''Haymarket Martyrs' Monument'' at the German Waldheim Cemetery, Forest Home Cemetery in Forest Park, Illinois, Forest Park, Illinois
File:Fan with Shankly.jpg, alt=Fan with Shankly, Fan next to memorial statue of Bill Shankly
File:Martyrs Memorial. Algiers, Algeria.jpg, Martyrs' Memorial, Algiers, Maqam Echahid in Algiers, Algeria
File:Airport Disaster 20.06.11 Memorial near Petrozavodsk 3.JPG, The memorial monument of the RusAir Flight 9605, 2011 airport disaster in Petrozavodsk, Republic of Karelia
File:Podlaskie - Białystok - Białystok - św. Rocha - Koścół św. Rocha - Tablica ofiarom katastrofy smoleńskiej 20120428 05.JPG, Memorial dedicated to the victims of the 2010 Polish Air Force Tu-154 crash in Smoleńsk at the St. Roch's Church in Białystok, Church of St. Roch in Białystok, Poland
File:Airborne Museum 'Hartenstein'.jpg, The Airborne Museum in Arnhem, Netherlands commemorates the liberation of the city during World War II
File:Berlin_ghostbike.jpg, A ghost bike roadside memorial in Berlin
File:Orthodox Cathedral of St. Andrew in South Bound Brook.jpg, St. Andrew Memorial Church (South Bound Brook, New Jersey), St. Andrew Memorial Church in South Bound Brook, New Jersey, was built in 1965 to commemorate the victims of the Holodomor
File:Namantar Shahid Smarak Nagpur.jpg, Namantar Shahid Smarak commemorates the Namantar Andolan
File:Victoria Memorial situated in Kolkata.jpg, The Victoria Memorial (India), Victoria Memorial of Kolkata is an important monument of India
File:Robison, Mathew Stanford FULL MONUMENT.jpg, The grave memorial for a ten year old disabled boy; Matthew Stanford Robison. Salt Lake City Cemetery Utah.
File:Golconda Playground memorial.jpg, Homemade memorial in Brooklyn, NYC featuring a photo cut-out of the deceased giving the The finger, middle-finger
File:Lincoln Memorial (May 2014) crop.jpg, Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., United States.
File:Chiang Kai-shek memorial amk.jpg, Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall in Taipei, Taiwan.
File:Anıtkabir, Ankara.jpg, Anıtkabir in Ankara, Turkey.
File:Mausoleum of the Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah medium View.JPG, Mazar-e-Quaid in Karachi, Pakistan.

See also

*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

References

External links

Commemorative Landscapes of North Carolina

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