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By Spooky | 8 CommentsLeave a Comment
Last updated: Thursday, May 29, 2008
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The Sedlec Ossuary ( Kostnice Sedlec) is a Roman Catholic Church in Sedlec, The Czech Republic, famous for its unusual, organic decorations.

Unlike other churches that like to use religious paintings and religious jewelery as decorations, this one uses between 40,000 and 70,000 human bone. Built especially as an ossuary in 1400, the macabre decorating started in 1870 when the Schwarzenberg family hired a woodcarver to arrange all the heaps of bones in order. You can see the result in the photos, but just so u know, there are 4 giant bell-shaped mounds in each corner of the chapel, an enormous chandelier which contains at least one of every bone in one’s body in the center of the chapel, and a signature of the artist, executed in bone, of course, and other “works of art”.

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8 comments
  1. Adrian
    May 29, 2008

    Wow, really brings out the death-cult aspect of Christianity. No doubt what’s really happening on the cross in this church!

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  2. Rustybag
    May 30, 2008

    Whoa this would be a really cool Mortal Kombat level!!!

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  3. george walala
    May 31, 2008

    i wouldn’t die to go there HAHAHAHAHAHAHA that was a joke

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  4. urmom
    May 31, 2008

    photoshopped

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  5. Holka modrooka
    June 1, 2008

    Hey, it is not a photoshop!!!! If you want, you can come to Czech Republic and you can see it!!!You can see also other ossuary near Prague in Mělník. It is smaller but very interesting too.

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  6. Grey
    June 2, 2008

    @Rustybag: I totally agree. This would be a badass level indeed.

    But wow, the level of detail in this is outstanding.

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  7. Tranque
    June 9, 2008

    This is mind-blowing.

    I love it. Very creative. I wonder how many of these bones may have been collected from war captives, criminals, or other prisoners.

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  8. Janet
    August 6, 2008

    I don’t think I would want to worship (or anything else) under all em bones.

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