Zhutenkaya All Saints Church

If you happen to be in Sedlec, a small town Czech Republic, be sure to visit the church of All Saints and the adjoining cemetery. Appearance and tombstones, sculptures and inscriptions tell here about black times.










The most horrible place of the church is a crypt where the remains of about 70,000 people. The vast majority were killed here during the plague and Hussite Wars. Then the remains of the dead were used by sculptors to design installations in the crypt.









The remains of the dead are decorated all the elements of the Roman Catholic Church: monstrances, monstrance, altars and even a statue of Christ (not blasphemy if?).







Apparently, the sculptors of antiquity sincerely tried as best they could, to decorate the church. Some skulls snakes twined artificially carved, wooden and stone columns decorated with scarabs.





One of the most famous figures who participated in the creation of creepy installations became Frantisek Rint, through which were born quite ornate objects of bone, metal and wood (actually it was a wood carver). His forces were created four was terrible chandeliers and a copy of the emblem of Schwarzenberg from the bones and skulls.





His work he completed in 1870. Today the crypt is a popular destination for tourists, and no ceremony in the church does not take place, because there is really creepy and unpleasant stay.



And apparently the church looks quite decently ...