Its north-south orientation shows that it was originally erected not as a church, but rather as a funerary chapel.

Heinrich von Drasche-Wartinberg had a funerary chapel for his family be constructed on the east side of the church in 1860.

This temple was built by incorporating elements of an ancient funerary chapel.

Mantegna probably made this painting for his personal funerary chapel.

It was used as a funerary chapel in the 10th century.

It was used as a funerary chapel.

Other discoveries included "a small funerary chapel of a private individual" adjacent to the pyramid, but outside the enclosure wall.

The previous season de Morgan had uncovered the ruins of the enclosure wall and the funerary chapel next to the pyramid.

It is considered a funerary chapel, being surrounded by 30,000 tumuli or graves.

Of the two funerary chapels, Perneb's is the larger, and its reliefs correspondingly grander.