Bell Tower
A bell tower is a tower that contains or is designed to contain one or more bells. Bell tower may also refer to: Architecture and towers Styles *Bell tower (wat), in Thai architecture *Bell tower (Chinese Buddhism), in Han Chinese Buddhist temple design Individual structures * Bell Tower (Edmonton), an office tower in Edmonton, Canada * Bell tower (Königsberg), Germany * Bell Tower (Pennsylvania Railroad), Marcus Hook, Pennsylvania, US * Bell Tower (University of Portland), Oregon, US * Bell Tower of Xi'an, a Zhonglou (Bell Tower) in Xi'an, China * Gulou and Zhonglou (Beijing), a Zhonglou (Bell Tower) in Beijing, China *Ivan the Great Bell Tower in the Kremlin, Moscow, Russia *Swan Bells, a campanile in Perth, Western Australia * Bell Tower, also known as Kissing Couple, in Colorado, US Fiction *''The Bell-Tower'', one of Herman Melville's ''Piazza Tales'' Film and TV *''Jonggak'' (The Bell Tower, subtitled Missing another Dawn), Korean film with Heo Jang-kang *''The Bell Tow ...
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Bell Tower
A bell tower is a tower that contains one or more bells, or that is designed to hold bells even if it has none. Such a tower commonly serves as part of a Christian church, and will contain church bells, but there are also many secular bell towers, often part of a municipal building, an educational establishment, or a tower built specifically to house a carillon. Church bell towers often incorporate clocks, and secular towers usually do, as a public service. The term campanile (, also , ), deriving from the Italian ''campanile'', which in turn derives from ''campana'', meaning "bell", is synonymous with ''bell tower''; though in English usage campanile tends to be used to refer to a free standing bell tower. A bell tower may also in some traditions be called a belfry, though this term may also refer specifically to the substructure that houses the bells and the ringers rather than the complete tower. The tallest free-standing bell tower in the world, high, is the Mortegliano B ...
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