The Sedlec Ossuary

 

The Sedlec Ossuary is Roman Catholic Church, found underneath the cemetery church of All Saints in Sedlec town of Kutna Hora in the Czech Republic. The ossuary is assessed to contain the skeletons of somewhere around 40,000 and 70,000 individuals, whose bones have much of the time been masterfully masterminded to structure designs and decorations for the house of prayer.

In the year 1278, King Otakar, the second of Bohemia sent Henry the abbot of the Cistercian religious community in Sedlec. He came back with him a little measure of earth he had expelled from Golgotha and sprinkled it over the convent cemetery. The expression of this devout demonstration soon spread and the cemetery in Sedlec turned into an attractive internment site all through Central Europe. In the mid fourteenth century, amid the Black Death, and after the Hussite Wars in the early fifteenth century, numerous thousands were covered in the nunnery cemetery, so it must be extraordinarily amplified. Around 1400, a Gothic church was inherent the middle of the cemetery with a vaulted upper level and a lower house of prayer to be utilized as an ossuary for the mass graves uncovered amid development, or essentially slated for annihilation to make space for new internments. After 1511, the errand of uncovering skeletons and stacking their bones in the church was given to a half-dazzle minister of the request. Somewhere around 1703 and 1710, another doorway was built to help the front divider, which was inclining outward, and the upper sanctuary was reconstructed. Jan Santini Aichel composed this work, in the Czech Baroque style.