Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum

The President Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum is a mausoleum which serves as the resting location of Vietnamese Revolutionary leader Ho Chi Minh in Hanoi, Vietnam. It is a massive constructing located within the middle of Ba Dinh Square, wherein Ho, Chairman of the Workers' Party of Vietnam from 1951 until his loss of life in 1969, study the Declaration of Independence on 2 September 1945, establishing the Democratic Republic of Vietnam.

It is also known as Ba ?ình Mausoleum and is open to the general public. Construction work commenced on September 2, 1973, and the mausoleum turned into formally inaugurated on August 29, 1975. It turned into inspired by using Lenin's Mausoleum in Moscow however carries distinct Vietnamese architectural elements, which include the sloping roof. The exterior is made of grey granite, at the same time as the indoors is gray, black and crimson polished stone. The mausoleum's portico has the words "Chu t?ch Ho Chi Minh" inscribed throughout it.