These are images showing the extraordinary and really amzing
interior of an ancient underground chapel decorated with the remains of
thousands of people.
The holy building, located in the Czech Republic, is known as the “Bone Church” and comes complete with a chilling backstory to accompany its creepy image.
The Czech chapel, officially called the Sedlec Ossuary, is built
under the grounds of a former cemetery, and makes use of the graveyard’s
deceased residents to decorate its elaborate interior.
After being founded in the 1200s, the cemetery quickly filled up,
and had become the final resting place of over 30,000 people by the
1400s.
Plague victims and fallen soldiers were numbered among the
thousands of dead in the Sedlec Cemetery, which was completely full by
the end of the 1400s.
With no more room to bury anyone else, all the remains were
eventually dug up and moved to the underground chapel, where piles of
bones were stacked up in sinister pyramids.
Until 1870, the heaps of human remains stood piled up in the
chapel, before a noble family hired an artist called FrantiĊĦek Rint to
turn the bones into deathly decorations.
Now the remains of over 40,000 people adorn the chapel walls, with
the bones of as many as 70,000 deceased Czechs decorating the creepy
building, which sits underground the Cemetery Church of All Saints in
the picturesque town of Sedlec.
Masterfully-arranged bleached bones cover almost every ornate
surface, whilst a chilling chandelier made out of human bones hangs from
the chapel’s ceiling.
This grand fixture is allegedly made from one copy of every bone in
the human body, and forms the creepy centrepiece of the cavernous
building.
Other bony fittings include a morbid goblet made from human
remains, whilst a huge mound of remains lies piled up in one of the
building’s dingy corners.
This is certainly a place you really would not want to spend the night in.
Source: The Sun UK
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