The
Sedlec Ossuary is a small
Roman Catholic chapel, located beneath the Cemetery Church of All Saints (Czech:
Hrbitovní kostel Všech Svatých) in
Sedlec, a suburb of
Kutná Hora in the
Czech Republic. It is one of twelve
World Heritage Sites in the Czech Republic. The
ossuary is estimated to contain the
skeletons of between 40,000 and 70,000 people, whose bones have in many cases been artistically arranged to form decorations and furnishings for the chapel. The ossuary is among the most visited
tourist attractions of the Czech Republic, attracting over 200,000 visitors annually. Four enormous bell-shaped mounds occupy the corners of the chapel. An enormous
chandelier of bones, which contains at least one of every bone in the human body, hangs from the center of the nave with garlands of
skulls draping the vault. Other works include piers and
monstrances flanking the
altar, a coat of arms of
House of Schwarzenberg, and the signature of Rint, also executed in bone, on the wall near the entrance.