Scanned from a damaged albumen print circa 1880
A second view of the Capuchin Crypt
Title on Photograph "Ossario dei Cappuccini Roma"
Known as the Capuchin Crypt it is located in the church of Santa Maria della Concezione dei Cappuccini in Rome.
The crypt contains the skeletal remains of 3700 Capuchin Friers. When the Capuchin's took over the church in 1631 they brought 300 wagons of skeletal remains.
Photo by Giorgio Sommer,Italian, born Germany (1834 - 1914)