Bone Church Urn
by Janis Knight
Title
Bone Church Urn
Artist
Janis Knight
Medium
Photograph - Color Digital
Description
"The Bone Church," Czech Republic, is the Sedlec Ossuary (Czech: Kostnice v Sedlci) is a small Roman Catholic chapel, located beneath the Cemetery Church of All Saints (Czech: Hřbitovní kostel Všech Svatých) in Sedlec, a suburb of Kutná Hora in the Czech Republic. It is one of twelve World Heritage Sites in the Czech Republic. The ossuary is estimated to contain the skeletons of between 40,000 and 70,000 people, whose bones have in many cases been artistically arranged to form decorations and furnishings for the chapel.
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August 25th, 2015
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