Bell tower of the Assumption Cathedral
Four-tiered 18th-century brick bell tower with a gilded dome, chiming clock and panoramic galleries.
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This guide to the Great Lavra Bell Tower of the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra in Kyiv starts with a set of numbers that should not fit together, beginning with a plan drawn up after a monastery fire in the early eighteenth century. It follows the Ukrainian architect whose design was reworked and the German builder, Johann Gottfried Schädel, who took over, along with a deadline nobody met. Best heard standing back from the base, where you can take in all four tiers at once.
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