The Academic Choir of Ukrainian Radio has performed an impromptu version of the famous Christmas tune Shchedryk (Carol of the Bells) at the bell tower of the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra (the Monastery of the ...

MOSCOW—At the top of the bell tower of Danilov Monastery, fruit flies buzz around the dark metal bells and a cool breeze sweeps off the nearby Moscow river. The 11 bells hang in heavy silence, far ...

Bells on Sunday comes from Kyiv’s Monastery of the Caves. Today is Easter Day for Christians across the world whose worship follows the Julian Calendar, including in Ukraine. We hear a recording of ...

Since ancient times, the chime of bells resounding from monasteries tucked in remote mountain communities or major urban settings have been an acoustic symbol of their existence. As much as calling ...

David Catalunya, a Valencian musician and musicologist, plays an 11th-century organ that researchers say is the oldest in the Christian world for the first time in 800 years after restoration, in ...

MOSCOW (AP) -- The Danilov Monastery's original 17th century bells ended up at Harvard University 73 years ago -- spared destruction from a state atheism campaign. Now the monks are hoping to get them ...

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