Church made of Human Bones

Church made of Human Bones

• Truth is sometimes stranger than fiction, and how about 70 kilometers 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).

• Attached are some of the pictures of this Boney Church - its simply astonishing