Mortuary house
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In archaeology and anthropology a mortuary house is any purpose-built structure, often resembling a normal dwelling in many ways, in which a dead body is buried.
Mortuary House of St Muiredach O’Heney.
Dead house
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A dead house, deadhouse or mort house, is a structure used for the temporary storage of a human corpse before burial or transportation, usually located within or near a cemetery. Such edifices were mo
Mortuary house
…mortuus, past participle of mori "to die". The meaning "place where bodies are kept temporarily" was first recorded in 1865, a euphemism for earlier deadhouse. Philip Lieberman suggests that burial and mortuary housing may signify a "concern for the dead that transcends daily life." It may be one of the…
The dead house next to Garpenberg church (Church of Sweden)
Mortuary refrigerator in the dead house next to Garpenberg church.
The octagonal deadhouse in Aurora, Ontario in Canada