Unusual location of the Month: Kutna Hora Bone Church

Unusual location of the Month: Kutna Hora Bone Church -

This church in Kutna Hora, a few miles outside of Prague in the Czech Republic. Officially called the Sedlec Ossuary, it is often only in the sense of "bone church", and contains more than 40,000 bones to decorate this Roman Catholic church located.

In 1278, the Abbot Church, Henry, went to the Holy Land. When he returned, he sprinkled some soil from the Holy Land around the church to make it holy. For this reason the cemetery in Sedlec became a popular burial place for Eastern Europe. After the plague in the 14th century, thousands of people were buried here and the cemetery had to be enlarged.

Around 1400 a church in the middle of the cemetery was built, and the lower was the chapel as an ossuary used for the mass graves unearthed during construction. According to legend, a blind monk began the process to the bones in the chapel of the stack to 1511.

In 1870, František Rint, a woodcarver, was employed by the Schwarzenberg family to the landowners of the church, the stakes put order. They wanted to escape something a symbol of the transience of life and the inability to die.

In addition to a chandelier, there are strings of skulls and bones hanging from the ceiling, a skull candle holder, a display case showing skull with various medieval weapons inflicted wounds, goblets, standing in niches, and Mr. Rint signature from finger bones made.

, the Kutna Hora Bone Church is open 7 days a week throughout the year, except on December 24 and 25. Admission is 40 kc for adults, 20 kc for students, and a photo permit is an additional 30 kc.

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