Dead house
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A dead house, deadhouse or mort house, is a structure used for the temporary storage of a human corpse before burial or transportation, usually located within or near a cemetery. Such edifices were mo
The dead house next to Garpenberg church (Church of Sweden)
Mortuary refrigerator in the dead house next to Garpenberg church.
The octagonal deadhouse in Aurora, Ontario in Canada
Moravian Church
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The Moravian Church, or the Moravian Brethren, formally the Unitas Fratrum, is one of the oldest Protestant denominations in Christianity, dating back to the Bohemian Reformation of the 15th century a
Dead house
…before which time grave excavation during the winter was either difficult or impossible. Dead houses were common to some religious groups, such as the Moravian Church (Unitas Fratrum). The "Corpse House" still exists in the Moravian Settlement of Lititz, Pennsylvania; those in Nazareth, Bethlehem and Winston-Salem, North Carolina no…
A stained-glass emblem of Agnus Dei at Trinity Moravian Church in Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Jan Hus
Jan Hus Preaching at Bethlehem Chapel in Prague, a 1916 portrait by Alfons Mucha
Jan Hus at the Council of Constance, a portrait by Václav Brožík