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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.
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 Tower, the Assumption Belfry and the Filaret's Annex. The Bell Tower was erected in 1505-1508 by Italian architect Bon Fryazin.
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 ...
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.
'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. Architectural Ensemble of the Moscow Kremlin.
On the eastern side of Cathedral Square stands the magnificent Ivan the Great Belltower, which, at a height of 81 metres, was the tallest building in all Russia for almost 400 years.
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 ...
