gnostek1 / 8Chapel interior
- 01The bone decorations were formally commissioned in 1870; František Rint bleached and arranged roughly 40,000 skeletons.
- 02The Schwarzenberg coat of arms rendered in bone includes a raven pecking the eye socket of a severed skull.
- 03The original mass burial began after soil from Jerusalem was sprinkled on the site in 1278, making it the most desired grave in Bohemia.