While we were in Prague we went to the Kutna Hora. For
viewers that don't know what that is, it is basically a church. But it is no ordinary
church, it was made out of bones from people who died most likely from Black
Death or those who died in the Hussite Wars because that was around the time
that the church was built. There are roughly 40,000 thousand bones used in this
church. This church wasn't weird to be in, it was rather more creepy and
disturbing knowing that someone once was obsessed with finding desiccated bones
to build a church. These aren't fake, they are real people that he dug up to
essentially make a chandelier out of bones. On a very weird level, there could
be a certain sublime to the church. The person who built the church could have
had the idea that he was doing a service to those who died of a plague or in
combat because they did not have a proper burial and now that they are buried
in a church they are essentially in the presence of God and his protection and
tourists are able to visit the church to pay respects to the diseased. The
structure of the church is very Gothic itself because on the outside it has the
typical point that the roof forms when it was being built and it is surrounded
by a graveyard. On the inside it has human bones, obviously which makes anyone
that goes inside or outside the church feel like they are surrounded by death
and make them sad.
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