Friday, May 27, 2016
Ossuary of Kutna Hora
The Ossuary of Kutna Hora or reffered to as the bone church is an old cathedral near Kutna Hora, Czech Republic that is decorated with the bones of over 40,000 people. That fact alone makes it very, very gothic since you are reminded of death as soon as you walk through the door. The one thing that makes me confused about it is that the church thought it was ok to dig up the bones of people resting in peace and decoarte the interior of their church with them where people will worship god. I feel this is kind of ironic but this is also very sublime to me simply because of the fact that over 40,000 people's bones are used as decoration. It just seems insane and basically unreal to me that something like this is possible and actually happened. It's not like these people were buried in a mass grave site from like a war or the plague but these people were dug up from their graves specifically to decoarte the church. It's mindblowing and that's what makes the Ossuary very creepy and sublime.
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