🕯 Skull Chapel

Poland · Europe · 50.45°N, 16.24°E

The Skull Chapel is an ossuary chapel located in the Czermna district of Kudowa-Zdrój, in southwestern Poland. Built in Baroque style in the last quarter of the 18th century, the temple serves as a mass grave with thousands of skulls and human skeletal remains adorning its interior walls, floor, ceiling, and foundations. The Skull Chapel is the only such monument in Poland, and one of five in Europe.

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Quick facts

Country	Poland
Continent / region	Europe
Coordinates (approx.)	50.45°N, 16.24°E · view on map

Skull Chapel is located in Poland, in Europe.

More chapels in Poland

Blessed Bronisława Chapel · Castle Chapel in Lubin · Chapel of All Saints, Tarnobrzeg · Chapel of St. John of Nepomuk, Zawiercie · Chapel of the Blessed Virgin Mary and St. Joseph · Chapel of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Bytom · Chapel of the Holy Trinity, Lublin Castle · Chapel of the Sisters of the Poor Clares, Bydgoszcz · Church of Saints Cosmas and Damian, Kolechowice · Evangelical-Augsburg Chapel, Poznań.

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