This Czech Church May Be the Creepiest Place on Earth. It's Decor Will Make You Cringe

by N/A, 10 years ago | 2 min read

It's creepy that the decorations of the "Bone Church" are comprised of human remains, but strangely beautiful at the same time.

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Sedlec Ossuary, or the "Bone Church" is located in Kutna Hora, Czech Republic. It has several decorations made of human bones; most notably, a Chandelier.

The location of the "Bone Church."

According to Wikipedia: "An ossuary is a chest, box, building, well, or site made to serve as the final resting place of human skeletal remains."

Before it was an ossuary, Sedlec was a monastery.

The Sedlec Abbot was sent to Jerusalem by the king of Bohemia. The Abbot brought back a handful of holy soil to the monastery, which he spread over the graveyard, effectively making it holy land. This caused demand for burial space to raise exponentially.

When Sedlec Monastery's burial space filled up, people were dug up and their bones were transferred to the basement of the monastery.

Y'know, overcrowding. This made Sedlec into an ossuary.

Eventually, the place became totally overwhelmed by the sheer amount of remains. So in 1870, a carpenter was hired to make "art" out of the bones.

The bones were bleached to reach a uniform white color. Personally, I find this coat of arms to be very cool. This would be a great theme for a death metal band.

The chandelier is the centerpiece of the church, but there are numerous other structures made of bones, such as the coat of arms above, several towers, and wall decorations.

In total, it's estimated that the bones are of 40,000-70,000 people. That's a lot of bones. The chandelier itself includes one of each bone in the human body.