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Sedlec Ossuary

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The Sedlec Ossuary is a small Roman Catholic chapel beneath the Cemetery Church of All Saints in Sedlec (suburb of Kutná Hora), famous for its decorative use of human bones. The lower chapel (ossuary) contains tens of thousands of skeletons artistically arranged into fixtures and sculptures, while the Gothic-Baroque church stands above amid the abbey cemetery.

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First raised

1400

Its prime

1870

Today

Still standing

As it stood in 1870

What Sedlec Ossuary looked like in its prime.

A compact two-storey cemetery chapel of pale ashlar and rendered walls with pointed Gothic window openings, stepped buttresses and steep, dark slate roofs. Three slender, lantern-topped towers rise above the roofline; a low enclosing cemetery wall surrounds the building and grave markers crowd the foreground. The exterior surfaces show stone dressings around tall lancet windows and a restrained Baroque-Gothic silhouette after Santini's early-18th-century rebuilding, in sound condition at the time of the 1870 interior re‑decoration.

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8 places to explore in 1870.

The record describes 8 distinct spots at Sedlec Ossuary, including 6 interiors: upper chapel (cemetery church of all saints) nave, ossuary central nave with bone chandelier, corner pyramids of stacked bones and more. Create your own photoreal reconstruction and explore every one, more scenes means more photos, more angles and more of the immersive experience.

Exterior approach from the cemeteryUpper chapel (Cemetery Church of All Saints) naveStone stair and entrance down to the ossuaryOssuary central nave with bone chandelierCorner pyramids of stacked bonesAltar area with bone piers and monstrancesSchwarzenberg coat of arms in bone above the entranceFrantišek Rint's signature in bone

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