A tomb on the Silent Street, Rath Dínen, that lay between Minas Tirith and Mindolluin. On that street were memorials to the great of Gondor's history, and among the many mausoleums were the House of the Stewards and the House of the Kings, grand tombs for the Stewards and the Kings of Gondor. It was in the House of the Kings that Aragorn lay down in the year IV 120, and voluntarily gave up his life (an ability possessed by those of Númenórean descent).
Though it is not named in the canonical texts, there was another House of the Kings in Minas Tirith. This was not a tomb, but the house where the Kings (and presumably also the Ruling Stewards) dwelt during the time of their rule of Gondor. In a sketch-map of the Citadel of Gondor, Tolkien shows this King's House as standing beside the White Tower to the west (that is, it would have behind the Tower from the point of view of one entering the Citadel through the Seventh Gate.
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