Collecting The Bones Of The Dead - A Church That Built With Skeleton Of 70,000 Men
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| Skeleton Church, Kuntá Hora, Czech Republic Photo: Instagram |
Collecting The Bones Of The Dead - A Church That Built With Skeleton Of 70,000 Men
Sedlec Ossuary in the Czech Republic is known as the 'Skeleton Church'. It is estimated that between 50,000 and 70,000 skeleton exist in this church of Roman Catholics.
Where is skeleton church?
The Roman Catholic Church is in Kutná Hora area. That's only an hour drive from Prague, capital of the Czech Republic. One of the most astonishing tourist attractions of Prague.
It starts from the church gate. Entrances arranged using human bones. Skeletons and skeletons — skulls, bones, teeth. All this is arranged inside. You may have seen such scenes only in horror movies. The environment there is also spooky. The most spectacular thing inside the church is a large skeleton chandelier. It is said that this chandelier is made of human bones. Around the chandelier there are four pillars decorated with human skulls.
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| Skeleton Church, Kuntá Hora, Czech Republic; Photo: Instagram |
There is a book published on Sedlec Ossuary or 'Skeleton Church'. The book describes, Ossuary means a structure that made of skeleton. Verbally means 'collecting the bones of the dead'. It is estimated that the catholic church has skeletons of 50,000 to 70,000 people.
From where those skeleton comes to the Sedlec Ossuary?
There is a historical event behind this. At first It was not a church . Sometime in 1100 its used to be a cemetery. However, it became popular afterwards. There is a operable story behind becoming popular of this place. At some point in 1278, Henry, a monk visited Jerusalem, who was sent by The King of the Bohemian region of the Czech Republic, Otokar II. The head of the
monastery came with some soil from Golgotha. Henry sprinkled that 'sacred soil' over the cemetery. Then the people throughout Central Europe wished to be buried there after death in the hope of gaining virtue. Later Sedlec became the most popular cemetery.
In the 1400's, the Black Death killed countless people in Europe. Many of them are buried in this cemetery of Kutná Hora. At one point, there was a shortage of space to bury someone in that cemetery. Then a Gothic church was built in the cemetery as a 'bone archive' in around 1400.
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| Skeleton Church, Kuntá Hora, Czech Republic; Photo: Instagram |
Who decorates the skeleton church?
It is said that in the early 1500's a half-bliend monk was given the task of removing skulls and bones and sorting them. The monk gathers all the bones from the cemetery and arranges them aesthetically.
Who built skeleton church?
The church was rebuilt in Czech Baroque style, by architect Jean Santini Aichel on early 1700's. At different times, different people like him were arranged the bones and skeletons of the dead inside the church. In 1870, Francishek Rint, a woodcarver, did the construction of various structures to decorate the skeletons, skulls, and bones of buried people. Since then, the church has been known by the name of Skeleton Church.