The Sedlec Ossuary in the Czech Republic is a chapel decorated with the bones of 40,000-70,000 people. It dates back to 1278 and was created when the cemetery ran out of space.
An ossuary is a church building that is used to store human bones when cemeteries run out of space for whole bodies. There is a chapel decorated with human skeletons known as the Sedlec Ossuary, or the Church of Bones. Located in the Czech Republic, this small chapel doesn’t just store bones or display them. The bones of 40,000-70,000 people were used as intricate decorations for the chapel. The Sedlec Ossuary dates back to the year 1278, when the abbot of the Cistercian monastery of Sedlec brought back land considered sacred from Jerusalem, which led to an increase in the number of people who wanted to be buried in the cemetery.
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One of the best-known pieces of the Sedlec Ossuary is a chandelier made from every type of bone in the human body.
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