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thumb|Visigoths|Visigothic crypt of Saint Antoninus [[Palencia Cathedral in Spain]] thumb|A crypt in Wola Gułowska in [[Lublin Province, Poland]] A crypt () is a stone chamber beneath the floor of a church, above ground within a cemetery’s mausoleum or a free-standing outdoor memorial tomb. It typically contains coffins, sarcophagi, or religious relics and sometimes cremation urns.
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A crypt is a stone chamber located beneath a church floor, within a cemetery's mausoleum, or as a standalone outdoor memorial tomb that holds coffins, sarcophagi, religious relics, or cremation urns. Crypts matter because they serve as permanent, protected spaces for storing and honoring the remains of the deceased and important religious artifacts.
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Wikidata facts
- Image
- Braunschweiger Dom Krypta Heinrichs des Loewen (2012).JPG
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- OpenStreetMap tag
- tomb=crypt
- Commons category
- Crypts
- Commons gallery
- Crypt
- equivalent class
- hist-arch-vocab.org/bvha#c_73f409e3