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Also located on the south side of Tiananmen Square is the Mao Zedong Mausoleum (Mao Zhuxi Jinian Bei), opened in 1977, a year after the Chairman’s death.
Smaller in scale, Daiyu-in is in fact the more impressive mausoleum, set on a forested hillside and approached by three flights of stone stairs and five decorative gates.
They were built at the very beginning of the 16th century by Sultan al-Ghuri, the last Mameluke ruler, and his mausoleum at the heart of the development is now a cultural center hosting regular performances of the Whirling Dervishes (who achieve religious ecstasy by circling around in continuous motion).
Finally Victor Hugo’s gigantic funeral in 1885 settled the issue in favor of a secular mausoleum.
Yeltsin also confirmed that the body of Lenin will eventually be removed from the mausoleum in Red Square and buried in an ordinary grave (a story taken up Wednesday on the front page of Germany's Die Welt ). "The question is when," he said.