Mausoleum of Yugoslav Soldiers in Olomouc, Neoclassical chapel and ossuary in Olomouc, Czech Republic

The Mausoleum of Yugoslav Soldiers is a neoclassical chapel with a dome, 11 metres high, standing on an artificial mound in Bezručovy sady park. A two-branch staircase leads to the entrance behind twelve Doric columns in three rows. The mound holds a 14 × 7 metre ossuary whose walled-up portal bears a sandstone relief of a mourning woman by Julius Pelikán, with the emblems of Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia.

The mausoleum was built in 1926 by the Czechoslovak-Yugoslav League to honor soldiers who died in military hospitals during World War I. It stands as a memorial to the partnership between these nations in the post-war period.

The facade bears a relief inscription in Czech and Serbo-Croatian: "VĚRNOST ZA VĚRNOST – LJUBAV ZA LJUBAV" (loyalty for loyalty, love for love). The interior frescoes of saints in Byzantine style were completed twelve years after the chapel was built. The ossuary entrance portal shows a sandstone relief of a mourning woman with the emblems of Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia.

The chapel stands on an artificial mound in Bezručovy sady, reached by a two-branch staircase behind the Doric columns. It is not open to the public: the ossuary portal was walled up in 1990 and the interior, including the Byzantine-style frescoes, is partly damaged. Visitors can view the exterior and the facade inscription from the park paths.

The ossuary holds small coffins containing remains gathered from cemeteries across Moravia and Silesia rather than in a single burial site. This approach demonstrates how dispersed the graves were and how the decision was made to consolidate them here.