• Architecture[edit]. The Ivan the Great Bell Tower is an ensemble with three components. ... The Ivan the Great Bell Tower today contains 22 bells.
  • The Ivan the Great Bell Tower, which is located in the Moscow Kremlin, has another name: the Church-Bell Tower of St. John of the Ladder.
  • After exploring the exhibitions, visitors can climb 137 steps to the top of the Ivan the Great Bell Tower for a spectacular view over the Kremlin and Moscow!
  • Ivan, the Great Bell Tower, is called the first skyscraper of Moscow – its height is 81 meters, and because of this, it could also be used as a watchtower.
  • While retreating, the Napoleonic army blew up and burned many buildings, and the Ivan the Great Bell Tower suffered greatly, among others.
  • Church of St. John the Baptist, Borovitskaya tower and Stablings prikaz (department) in the Kremlin - Fyodor Alekseyev.
  • The Ivan the Great Bell Tower was constructed between 1505 and 1508 on the site of the Church of St. Ivan of the Ladder-under-the Bell.
  • The white stone complex of the Ivan the Great Bell Tower dominates an entire side of Cathedral Square and houses several of the largest bells in the world.
  • The lower floor of the bell tower was re-established as the temple of the Saint John Climacus. That is why the bell tower was called Ivan (John) the Great.
  • Ive Komiss (3 years ago) The Ivan the Great Bell Tower is a church tower inside the Moscow Kremlin complex.