See also:

• PANTHEON (Lat. pantheum or pantheon; Gr. srav& ov, all-holy, from re, s, all, and Oeor god)

PANTHEON (See also:

• LAT

Lat. pantheum or pantheon; Gr. srav& ov, all-See also:

• HOLY

holy, from re, s, all, and Oeor See also:

• GOD

god)  , the name of two buildings in See also:

• ROME
• ROME (Roma)

Rome and See also:

• PARIS
• PARIS (also called ALEXANDROS)
• PARIS, ALEXIS PAULIN (1800-x881)
• PARIS, BRUNO PAULIN GASTON (1839-1903)
• PARIS, FRANCOIS DE (169o-1727)
• PARIS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ALBERT
• PARIS, TREATIES OF (1814-1815)

Paris respectively; more generally, the name of any See also:

• BUILDING

building in which as a See also:

• MARK
• MARK, CARL (1858– )
• MARK, GOSPEL OF ST
• MARK, ST

mark of See also:

• HONOUR (Lat. honos or lwnor, honoris; in English the word was spelled with or without the u indifferently until the 17th century, but during the 18th century it became fashion-able to spell the word " honor "; Johnson's and Webster's Dictionaries stereoty

honour the bodies of the nation's famous men are buried, or " memorials " or monuments to them are placed . Thus See also:

• WESTMINSTER
• WESTMINSTER, MARQUESSES AND DUKES OF
• WESTMINSTER, STATUTES OF
• WESTMINSTER, SYNODS OF

Westminster See also:

• ABBEY (Lat. abbatia; from Syr. abba, father)
• ABBEY, EDWIN AUSTIN (1852– )

Abbey is sometimes styled the See also:

• BRITISH

British " See also:

• PANTHEON (Lat. pantheum or pantheon; Gr. srav& ov, all-holy, from re, s, all, and Oeor god)

Pantheon," and the rotunda in the See also:

• ESCORIAL

Escorial where the See also:

• KINGS, FIRST AND SECOND BOOKS OF

kings of See also:

• SPAIN
• SPAIN (Espana)

Spain are buried also bears the name . Near See also:

• REGENSBURG (RATISBON)

Regensburg (q.v.) is the pantheon of See also:

• GERMAN
• GERMAN, DUTCH AND SCANDINAVIAN

German worthies, known as the See also:

• VALHALLA (Old Norse Valhdll, i.e. " hall of the slain ")

Valhalla . The first building to which the name was given was that built in Rome in 27 B.C. by See also:

• AGRIPPA
• AGRIPPA, HEROD, I
• AGRIPPA, HEROD, II
• AGRIPPA, MARCUS VIPSANIUS

Agrippa; it was burned later and the existing building was erected in the reign of See also:

• HADRIAN (PUBLICS AELIUS HADRIANUS)

Hadrian; since A.D . 609 it has been a See also:

• CHRISTIAN
• CHRISTIAN, WILLIAM (1608-1663)

Christian See also:

• CHURCH
• CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
• CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
• CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
• CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
• CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)

church, S Maria Rotunda . It was the Paris building that gave rise to the generic use of the See also:

• TERM

term for a building where a nation's illustrious dead See also:

• REST (O. Eng. rest, reste, bed, cognate with other Teutonic forms, e.g. Ger. Rast, Riiste, rest, and probably Gothic Rasta, league, i.e. resting or stopping place)

rest . The Pantheon in Paris was the church built in the classical See also:

• STYLE
• STYLE (from Gr. a-6'1ms, a column; a different word from that used in literature, see below)

style by Soufflot; it was begun in 1764 and consecrated to the patroness of the See also:

• CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

city, Sainte See also:

• GENEVIEVE, or GENOVEFA, ST (c. 422-512)

Genevieve . At the Revolution it was secularized under the name of Le Pantheon, and dedicated to the See also:

• GREAT

great men of the nation . It was reconsecrated in 1828 for See also:

• WORSHIP (i.e. " worth-ship," O. Eng. weor8scipe)

worship, was again secularized in 183o, was once more a See also:

• PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place of worship from 1851 to 1870, and was then a third See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time secularized . On the See also:

• ENTABLATURE (Lat. in, and tabula, a tablet)

entablature is inscribed the words Aux Grandes See also:

• HOLMES, OLIVER WENDELL (18o9-1894)

Holmes La Patrie See also:

• RECONNAISSANCE (from Fr. reconnaitre, to recognize, Lat. recognoscere)

Reconnaissance . The See also:

• DECREE (from the past participle, decretus, of Lat. decernere)

decree of 1885 finally established the building for the purpose for which the name now stands .