Please Donate! Curious History needs help! Any amount would be greatly appreciated.
Curious History is here to entertain you with natural and human wonders both vintage and current. Curious History (odditiesoflife) is Tumblr's top history editor.

Click Here to Subscribe to Curious History

The Chapel Made of Skulls and Bones

The Sedlec Ossuary is a small Roman Catholic chapel, located beneath the Cemetery Church of All Saints in Sedlec, a suburb of Kutna Hora in the Czech Republic. The ossuary is estimated to contain the skeletons of between 40,000 and 70,000 people, whose bones have in many cases been artistically arranged to form decorations and furnishings for the chapel. The ossuary is among the most visited tourist attractions of the Czech Republic, attracting over 200,000 visitors yearly.

In 1870 František Rint, a woodcarver, was employed by the Schwarzenberg family to put the bone heaps into order. The macabre result of his effort speaks for itself. Four enormous bell-shaped mounds occupy the corners of the chapel. An enormous chandelier of bones, which contains at least one of every bone in the human body, hangs from the center of the nave with garlands of skulls draping the vault.

  1. somestuffofinterest reblogged this from odditiesoflife
  2. belalubunny reblogged this from the-retired-reaper
  3. askcecewells reblogged this from the-retired-reaper
  4. the-retired-reaper reblogged this from xkyuketsuki
  5. xkyuketsuki reblogged this from reapergrellsutcliff
  6. teru-chii reblogged this from reapergrellsutcliff
  7. reapergrellsutcliff reblogged this from undertakertalbot
  8. undertakertalbot reblogged this from odditiesoflife
  9. spyvstailor reblogged this from odditiesoflife
  10. manicpixiedust reblogged this from he-who-waits-behind-the-wall
  11. he-who-waits-behind-the-wall reblogged this from grimdarkromania
  12. grimdarkromania reblogged this from odditiesoflife
  13. poisonbatcandy reblogged this from musemedley
  14. eye-of-tei reblogged this from musemedley
  15. lightmilitia reblogged this from musemedley
  16. musemedley reblogged this from wolfwithhands
  17. kagedrummer reblogged this from possessed-by-zest
  18. sciencegurl reblogged this from kellyanneis138
  19. skalen reblogged this from sspirate
  20. bethanymaetrent reblogged this from bunnybundy
  21. tmblake reblogged this from overcomethisworldwithlove
  22. abraylelynn reblogged this from morganafae-unseeliesidhe
  23. clockworkcupcake reblogged this from lambandwolf
  24. morganafae-unseeliesidhe reblogged this from odditiesoflife and added:
    The Chapel Made of Skulls and Bones
  25. lambandwolf reblogged this from tinadw and added:
    I didn’t check the accuracy of the text but this church does exist.
  26. tinadw reblogged this from bunnybundy
  27. jeff-the-unicorn reblogged this from bunnybundy
  28. surreal-ity reblogged this from lust-mord
The Blog Farm
Simplexity Theme by DO NOT REMOVE