charnel houses
Skeletal remains repositories
Charnel houses are buildings or vaults where human bones and remains are stored, typically after bodies have decomposed in temporary graves.
Churches and cemeteries historically used them when burial space ran short.
The term extends figuratively to any place associated with death and carnage: The battlefield had become a charnel house.
- mortuariesCorpse preparation facilities
- tombUnderground chamber for remains
- cryptSubterranean burial vault
- ossuaryReceptacle for skeletal remains
- rotOrganic breakdown process
corpses · dead bodies · human remains · grave · burial · burial ground · plague pit · memento mori · necropolis · sepulcher · skulls · death mask · boneyard · mausoleum · bones · decay · gothic horror · pits
- Ancient Gravestombs, crypts, mausoleums, burial mounds, sarcophagi
- burial customsburial, burial rites, burials, burial customs, tombs
- burial groundsgraves, tombs, crypts, vaults, churchyards
- burial archaeologyburials, graves, tombs, burial sites, burial mounds
- tombstombs, burial vault, burial chamber, mausoleum, graves
- dark tourismdark tourism, Auschwitz, Chernobyl, concentration camps, death camps
charnel housesmaternity wards
Hospital areas for childbirth
birthing centers · nurseries · cradles · fertility clinics · hospitals
charnel housesmausoleums
Large ornate burial buildings
tombs · sarcophagi · pyramids · burial vaults · morgues
charnel housessanctuaries
Protected places of refuge
chapels · temples · cathedrals · shrines · holy sites
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