You might think that this is just another average old medieval Gothic churches in Czech Republic, but the Sedlec Ossuary in Kutna Hora is famously known as the Church of Bones (or as the Bone Church) is one of the most unusual chapels you will ever see (There are a few other churches with bones all over the world, anyway).



The Church became famous for its cemetery. What's so special about the cemetery? In 1278, King Otakar II of Bohemia sent the abbot of Sedlec, Henry, to the Holy Land Jerusalem for a diplomatic mission. Henry took a handful of soil from Golgotha and he sprinkled over the cemetery of Sedlec monastery. That's how the cemetery became famous throughout Central Europe that many rich people wished to be buried there. The enlargement of the cemetery was done during the epidemics of plagues in 1318 where 30,000 people were buried there, and during Hussite wars in 1st quarters of 15th century.






The Church was then remodelled into Czech Baroque style by a famous Czech architect, Jan Blažej SANTIM-Aichl, and the arrangement of the bones was later made by a Czech wood-carver, František RINT. The Sedlec Ossuary is artistically decorated by more than 40,000 human skeletons, and in the middle of the chapel.















It's the most famous tourist spot in Czech Republic, but most tourists would never want to go back for a second visit to this Church. Too creepy.







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