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The Ivan the Great Bell Tower (Russian: Колокольня Иван Великий, romanized: Kolokol'nya Ivan Velikiy) is a church tower inside the Moscow Kremlin complex. With a total height of 81 metres (266 ft), it is the tallest tower and structure of the Kremlin.
FILARET'S ANNEX. The 'Ivan the Great' Bell Tower complex situated at the boundary between the Cathedral Square and Ivanovskaya Square is the focal point of the Kremlin. It took more than three centuries to create this ensemble—from 1505 to 1815. It includes three monuments built at different times— the tower of the 'Ivan the Great' Bell ...
Ivan, the Great Bell Tower, is the highest building of the Moscow Kremlin and its compositional center. Also, it's said to be the center of Moscow. It was built at the beginning of the 16th century by Italian architect Bon Fryazin as the central bell tower for the churches of Kremlin – the Uspenskiy Cathedral, the Cathedral of the Archangel ...
As the ‘Ivan the Great’ Bell Tower has been the composition centre of the entire Kremlin ensemble for the last five hundred years, it was chosen to house ancient artefacts. Besides, the features of its multi-tier construction allow visitors, like an archaeologist, climb from the lower ‘eldest archaeological layers’ to the upper ones ...
'Ivan the Great' Bell Tower complex. An ensemble of the 'Ivan the Great' Bell Tower, Assumption Belfry and Filaret Annex has been an architectural focus of the city for centuries. The Museum of History of the Kremlin Architectural Ensemble is housed here.
The ‘Ivan the Great’ Bell Tower was built in 1505-1508 on the site of a white-stone Church bell tower of St John Climacus, erected in the times of Ivan Kalita at the Cathedral Square. An Italian architect Bon Fryazin constructed an approximately 60-meter-tall octagonal building complete with a dome.
Russia, Europe. Moscow. With its two golden domes rising above the eastern side of Sobornaya pl, the Ivan the Great Bell Tower is the Kremlin's tallest structure – a landmark visible from 30km away. Before the 20th century it was forbidden to build any higher in Moscow.
