Sedlec Ossuary

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The Sedlec Ossuary is a small macabre Christian chapel. This strange place is located beneath the Cemetery Church of All Saints in Sedlec, a suburb of Kutn? Hora in the Czech Republic.

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The ossuary was built for mass graves unearthed during construction, or simply slated for abolition to make room for new burials. Its interior is composed exclusively of approximately 40,000 human skeletons which have been ordered and artistically arranged to form decorations and furnishings for the chapel.

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Interesting and scary, the ossuary has an enormous chandelier of bones, which contains at least one of every bone in the human body, piers and monstrances near the altar, a large Schwarzenberg coat-of-arms, and the signature of Master Rint, on the wall near the entrance.

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Sources: Kutna Hora, Wikimedia Commons

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8 Responses to “Sedlec Ossuary”

  1. amanda, on May 20th, 2008 at 8:53 pm Said:

    see what churches do??

  2. Tiff, on September 13th, 2008 at 6:07 pm Said:

    are these real??

  3. Alexandra, on September 13th, 2008 at 11:01 pm Said:

    yes… more than real :P

  4. Maricella, on December 26th, 2008 at 4:20 pm Said:

    Talk about scary!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :(

  5. Sterf, on January 3rd, 2009 at 3:58 pm Said:

    My ’spying program’ (off which I spy who searches my sites and from where) led me here, and made me into having a terrible deja-vu. In my mind, I was already here informing people of a better place to view pictures of the location mentioned in this post. I believe I was promoting http://www.ludd.luth.se/~silver_p/NewSedlec/index.htm as an alternative to the lifeless pictures who happened upon this post, but was somehow stopped by forces unknown in being publicised. The weirdest thing…

  6. Joey, on January 14th, 2009 at 6:29 pm Said:

    Absolutely beautiful! What a breathtakingly artistic memorial to the dead!

  7. Lola, on February 13th, 2009 at 12:14 am Said:

    looks like what jeffrey dahmer wanted to do with the bones xD

  8. Jack, on March 1st, 2009 at 7:20 pm Said:

    I just visited this superb chapel and was very impressed. It is so remote and it inspires calm and peace in fact.

    I knew little about the chapel before I arrived there, so just imagine the shock I got.

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