Bony Church - Amazing
Truth is sometimes stranger than fiction, and how about 70 kilometres east
the capital of the Czech Republic, Prague, lies a small town called Sedlec.
It might have been an ordinary enough town, if not for its extraordinary
church. The inside of this church is decorated with artworks made of real
human bones. The story begins in 1218, when a certain Abbot Henry made a
pilgrimage to the holy land and brought back a jar full of soil from
cemetery, which he spread over the Church. As a result the church came to be
regarded as more sacred and turned into a popular burial spot.
By 1318, more than 30,000 bodies were buried there and by 1511, it had
become necessary to remove the older bones to make place for the new ones.
These later became the material for the macabre creations.
In 1870 a local woodcarver was hired by the Duke of Shwartzenberg to
decorate the inside of the church with the human remains (approximately 40,000 sets of human bones).
Now it is one of the most extraordinary church in the
whole world.... Bony Church - isn't it morbidly amazing???
Attached are some of the pictures of this Bony Church - its simply astonishing