Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum

Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum
The main hall of the Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum.
Chinese中山陵
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinZhōngshān Líng
Bopomofoㄓㄨㄥ ㄕㄢ ㄌㄧㄥˊ
Wade–GilesChung1-shan1 Ling2
IPA[ʈʂʊ́ŋ.ʂán lǐŋ]
Southern Min
Hokkien POJTiōng-soaⁿ-lêng

Sun Yat-sen's Mausoleum (Chinese: 中山陵; pinyin: Zhōngshān Líng) is situated at the foot of the second peak of Purple Mountain in Nanjing, Jiangsu, China. Construction of the tomb started in January 1926, and was finished in spring of 1929. The architect was Lü Yanzhi, who died shortly after it was finished. His representative and project partner was his close friend Huang Tanpu.