Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum

This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (January 2014) (Learn how and when to remove this message)

Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum
The main hall of the Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum.
Chinese	中山陵
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Zhōngshān Líng Bopomofo ㄓㄨㄥ ㄕㄢ ㄌㄧㄥˊ Wade–Giles Chung1-shan1 Ling2 IPA [ʈʂʊ́ŋ.ʂán lǐŋ] Southern Min Hokkien POJ Tiōng-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.