A classmate and avid traveler, Todd, tipped us off to make a half day trip out of Prague to the small town of Kunta Hora to the “bone church”. While we were skeptical, Todd was so insistent on the excursion that we trekked out to Kunta Hora. Wow he wasn’t kidding. The Sedlec Ossuary aka the bone church is an ossuary that is estimated to house the skeletons of 40,000 – 70,000 people. The ossuary had been a popular burial site in Bohemia and was overrun with bodies during the plague in the 14th century and Hussite Wars in the 15th century. A new family purchased the chapel in the 1800’s and hired a local woodcarver to arrange the bones. The result is both morbid and fascinating. See for yourself in the pictures below.
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| Chris & I underneath the chandelier |
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| Chandelier had every bone in the human body |
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| A crown of skeletons to commemorate the king |
We returned to Prague to accidentally encounter the taping of Mission Impossible 4 which was quite a departure from starring at 40,000 skeletons.
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