It is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used whenever it is appropriate to refer to a cenotaph, or a monument built in honor of a person or group of people whose remains are not interred there. For example, "The cenotaph of the unknown soldier stood tall in the center of the city square, a reminder of the sacrifices made in war."
The city of Lashkar contains many palaces and the cenotaph of the rani of Jhansi.
They abide in the mind like a visit to the Lee Chapel in Lexington, with its New England Congregational symmetries giving suddenly onto a Gothic altar bearing the cenotaph of the general.
Next, check out the connected Hofkirche, or Court Church, where the ornate cenotaph of Holy Roman Emperor Maximilan I is watched over by Renaissance-era statues of kings, queens, ladies, knights and courtiers, and where another tomb holds the remains of the Tyrol's regional hero, Andreas Hofer.
The city, the journalist Tony Horwitz noted, in his 1998 book "Confederates in the Attic," is "a vast cenotaph of secession, with tens of thousands of rebel graves, countless monuments, and the remains of Confederate bulwarks, armories, hospitals, prisons, old soldiers' homes".
Visit the 16th Century Gothic Hofkirche (Imperial Church) to see the cenotaph of the Emperor Maximilian surrounded by 28 larger-than-life bronze statues of his ancestors, relatives and heroes standing vigil over his tomb.
And, yet, it also does not limit it in any way as a destination terminus (e.g. the de facto cemetery and cenotaph of the new National September 11 Memorial).
Therein are the cenotaphs of Mumtāz Maḥal and Shah Jahān.
Nearby are marble cenotaphs of the Sindhia rulers.
Just steps away, huddled together on the banks of the river are the grim but imposing chhatris (cenotaphs) of the medieval rulers who left their mark on this place.
It was incorporated as an offering into the base of a cenotaph to Juan de Zumárraga, the first archbishop of Mexico.
However, opposition to the proposal (led by Keith Murdoch and The Herald) forced the governments of the day to rethink the design, and a number of alternatives were proposed, the most significant of which was the ANZAC Square and cenotaph proposal of 1926.
