A large monument dedicated to the 16th President of the United States.
Across the Washington Monument lies a neoclassical monument dedicated to the 16th President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln (1809 – 1865). Located at the west end of the National Mall, it is modelled after an ancient Greek temple, with it being divided into three chambers demarcated by Ionic columns. In the second chamber is the main attraction of the monument: a large, seated sculpture of Abraham Lincoln himself, measuring about six metres tall. It also contains the inscriptions of two well-known speeches by the President: The Second Inaugural Address and his Gettysburg Address. Constructed in 1914 and opened to the public in 1922, approximately six million visitors come to this memorial annually. This memorial has also been the site for many world-famous speeches, including Martin Luther King Jr.’s (1929 – 1968) I Have a Dream speech.
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