The Sedlec Ossuary – Kutna Hora aka The Bone Church is an unassuming medieval chapel located in Kutna Hora close to Prague.
When Abbot Henry of the Sedlec Monastery brought back a handful of earth back from the Grave of the Lord in Jerusalem, he scattered this “holy soil” across the Sedlec cemetery, cementing as the most sought after burial site for miles around leading to more than 30,000 souls being laid to rest there. But space filled up, and quickly so the bodies were moved to a crypt to make room for the newly dead. For centuries, the excavated bones lay neglected in piles until 1870 when woodcarver Frantisek Rint painstakingly picked apart and fashioned more than 60,000 skeletons into an ornate Gothic interior. The bones form coats of arms, laurel wreathes and vast sweeping archways.
Where? The Sedlec Ossuary – Kutna Hora, Zámecká, 284 03
How Much? from £7.50
