Anıtkabir

Also known as Mausoleum of Atatürk

Architect

Emin Onat

Year

1944

Style

Modernism

Type

memorial

Anıtkabir rises on the Anıttepe ridge in Ankara as the permanent mausoleum of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, built through a long state construction campaign from 1944 to 1953 on the basis of a 1942 international competition won by Emin Onat and…

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1944
Original construction
Emin Onat, Orhan Arda
1950-1953
Completion
The fourth phase finished the Hall of Honor pavements, vault pavements, stone profiles, and ornamentation before the monument's final opening.
1950
Completion
The third construction phase paved the Lions Road and Ceremony Square, set the upper mausoleum stone pavement, built the stairs, and placed the sarcophagus stone.
1960
Installation
The Anıtkabir Atatürk Museum opened in the section reserved for the museum in the original competition program.