Ossuary and its analogues Bashny.Net

Kutna Hora ...
The ancient center of silver mining and minting coins. There "is" ossuary, which is on the site of a former monastery Siedlce, outside of the old city, is among the guests gloomy impressions.



Pay attention to the "pirate" symbols on the turrets of the chapel.



Chandelier

Total in the chapel are the remains of about 50 thousand. People. Sedletskii monastery was a very popular place of burial. The bones were piled in the chapel in 1511, when it took place, which occupied the cemetery, cleaning and doing it, according to legend, a half blind Cistercian monk. Products made of bones is a thing of the 19th century - in 1870 the master of woodcarving Frantisek Rint made these dark decoration to order the new owners of the chapel.

This chapel is not the only one!





Chapel Of Bones (Capella Dos Ossos) Chapel of Bones
This chapel was built between 1460 and 1510. Evora, Portugal, Franciscan monks, and is their "message of the impermanence of the living." The walls of the chapel ornamented with skulls and bones of 5,000 people.



Chapel of Bones in Faro, Portugal, was built in 1816 using the remains of 1,250 people

There are catacombs beneath Paris with their mountains of bones and skulls.


Numerous temples had their own cemetery in Paris, with the growth of the city, many of them in the late 18th century have been eliminated, and the bones stacked in the catacombs.
It bears the name of the funeral Ossuaire Municipal - municipal cemetery - and open to the public since 1867.

To be continued .. =)