The Mărășești Mausoleum is a historical monument dedicated to the heroes of the First World War.
The mausoleum was erected on the site where, in the summer of 1917, the battles of Mărășești took place, resulting in the victory of the Romanian troops. In the confrontations at Mărășești, 480 officers and 21,000 Romanian soldiers died. Currently the mausoleum houses the remains of 5073 soldiers and officers, in 154 individual crypts and 9 common crypts on 18 lanes.
The Mausoleum of the Marasesti Heroes was built, between 1923 - 1938, according to the plans of the architects George Cristinel and Constantin Pomponiu, who were the winners of the project competition and awarded with 40,000 gold lei.[1] The monument was officially inaugurated on September 18, 1938.
The works were started on September 28, 1924 and resumed after 12 years, in 1936. The "Dome of Glory" bas-reliefs were made by Cornel Medrea and Ion Jalea and illustrate various moments of the battles in Mărășești. The interior painting was executed by Eduard Săulescu.
The architect and sculptor Emil Wilhelm Becker, sculptor of the Royal House, made a significant contribution to the creation of the Mausoleum, for which, in 1924, he created all the sculptures in the chapel and inside the crypt.[2]
In 1938, on the occasion of the inauguration, a jubilee medal was issued, with a diameter of 60 mm, in three variants: gold, silver and bronze. On the obverse of the medal were the effigies of kings Ferdinand I (on the right) and Charles II (on the left), face to face, and in the middle, below, was the coat of arms of the Kingdom of Romania. On the reverse, in the middle, the Mausoleum of the Heroes from Mărășești is shown.
The initiative to build the Mausoleum of Heroes from Mărășești belongs to the National Orthodox Society of Romanian Women and was launched at the Congress held on June 8, 1919, in the Senate Hall in the Capital. The monument was built according to the plans of the architect George Cristinel. The foundation stone of the future memorial was laid on August 6, 1923. In the summer of 1924, the reburial of the bones of the soldiers who fell on the battlefield began, in the crypts of the Mausoleum, and in September, the remains of General Eremia Grigorescu, commander, were placed in the central sarcophagus of the Romanian First Army during the Battle of Mărășești.
On September 28, 1924, the solemnity of the inauguration of the crypts took place, in the presence of Queen Maria and some high personalities of the time. After 12 years, the building work resumed on the dome of the monument, known as the "Dome of Glory", whose bas-reliefs were sculpted by Ion Jalea and Corneliu Medrea, while the interior fresco was painted by Eduard Săulescu.
The mausoleum houses in the 154 individual crypts and 9 common crypts, the bones of 5,073 soldiers and officers, among them the girl-heroine Măriuca Zaharia, captain Grigore Ignat and lieutenant Gabriel Pruncu.
On the front of the Mausoleum were written the words "In the Glory of the Heroes of the Nation" and the names of the localities where the main battles on the Romanian Front were fought.
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Currently, the mausoleum is a historical monument,
