Catacomb

A Christian subterranean cemetery built both as a response to overcrowding and shortage of land, and as a need for persecuted Christians to bury their dead secretly. Famous examples include:

• Catacombs of Rome, Italy
• Catacombs of Paris, France
• Catacombs of Kom el Shoqafa, in Alexandria, Egypt
• Catacombs of Sacromonte in Granada, Spain.
• Catacombs of the Convento de San Francisco in Lima, Peru