• St. Sophia Cathedral is an outstanding temple complex of the XI century in Kiev, a historical monument-museum, which includes: the bell…
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  • The belfry, with its enormous steel bells, has a small bell museum and an observation platform providing good photo opps of the Cathedral of St Sophia on…
  • Belfry of St Sophia Cathedral (1437, rebuilt in the 16th and 17th centuries).
  • The exact time of construction of the bell tower is not known but it was erected much later than the Cathedral of St. Sophia, which was built in 1050.
  • The Belfry of St Sophia became a prototype for structures of this type in Moscow, Rostov and Tikhvin.
  • The big bell of the belfry of the St. Sophia Cathedral was cast in 1659 in Novgorod Detinets by master Ermolai Vasilyev.
  • The exception is during the period of the Russian Empire, which lasted from 1721 until the Russian Revolution 1917. For these two centuries the capital was St...
  • It was built in 1045-1050 Stock Photo Belfry of St. Sophia Cathedral of Veliky Novgorod, Russia.