Mausoleum vs. Crypt

Mausoleumnoun

A large stately tomb or a building housing such a tomb or several tombs.

Mausoleumnoun

(by extension) A gloomy, usually large room or building.

Mausoleumnoun

A magnificent tomb, or stately sepulchral monument.

Mausoleumnoun

a large burial chamber, usually above ground

Mausoleum

A mausoleum is an external free-standing building constructed as a monument enclosing the interment space or burial chamber of a deceased person or people. A mausoleum without the person's remains is called a cenotaph.

Cryptnoun

A cave or cavern.

Cryptnoun

An underground vault, especially one beneath a church that is used as a burial place.

Cryptnoun

(anatomy) A small pit or cavity in the surface of an organ or other structure.

Cryptnoun

A vault wholly or partly under ground; especially, a vault under a church, whether used for burial purposes or for a subterranean chapel or oratory.

Cryptnoun

A simple gland, glandular cavity, or tube; a follicle; as, the crypts of Lieberkühn, the simple tubular glands of the small intestines.

Cryptnoun

a cellar or vault or underground burial chamber (especially beneath a church)

Crypt

A crypt (from Latin crypta ) is a stone chamber beneath the floor of a church or other building. It typically contains coffins, sarcophagi, or religious relics.