💀 Sedlec Ossuary (Bone Church)

About This Sacred Site

The Sedlec Ossuary, located beneath the Cemetery Church of All Saints in Kutná Hora, is a small Roman Catholic chapel famously decorated with the skeletal remains of between 40,000 and 70,000 people. In 1870, woodcarver František Rint was hired to organize the bones, creating chandeliers, coats of arms, and garlands entirely from human remains. The bones date largely from the 14th-century Black Death and the 15th-century Hussite Wars.

Key Facts

• •Contains the artistically arranged bones of an estimated 40,000–70,000 people
• •A massive bone chandelier contains at least one of every bone in the human body
• •Most bones date from victims of the Black Death (1348) and the Hussite Wars (15th century)
• •Woodcarver František Rint created the current arrangements in 1870
• •Part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Kutná Hora's historic center

Location

Coordinates: 49.9615, 15.2882