The largest bell in the world is the TSar Bell, located outside the Moscow Kremlin Palace in Russia. A. D. It was built in 1735 by the sculptor Ivan Motorin .. !!
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In medieval Russian Orthodox churches, church bells were not rung for religious ceremonies. However, such bells were rung during the year's celebrations and other important ceremonies, even during enemy attacks.
The giant bell seen in the picture is a third generation bell. The two giant bells that were previously built for the same place were destroyed ...
The first bell was made in the sixteenth century, a. D. Completed in 1600. Established in the same place. It took the efforts of 24 people to ring the first bell, which weighed 16-metric tons. But in the early seventeenth century, the bell was completely destroyed by a fire.
At the request of the government, the construction of the bell resumed. A. D. The second generation bell, completed in 1655, was ten times the size of the first bell. The bell, which weighed 100-metric tons, did not last long. The bell was destroyed in another fire in 1701.
The then Russian Empress Anna Ivanovna (reigned 1730-1740) ordered the construction of another bell. The order was to make a bell twice the size of the second bell. No one in Moscow was capable of this. When the search for a suitable sculptor in France and Germany was in vain, the Russian artillery maker Ivan Motorin took over the mission .. !!
It took months to make this new bell made from old bells and new silver. In addition to silver, 525 kg of silver and 72 kg of gold were used for its construction. Construction was completed, and sculptor Ivan died in 1735 while continuing his casting work. Then, his son Michael completed the construction of this huge bell.
But, unfortunately, it continued unabated. A few days before the decision to install the bell, a fire in the Kremlin in May 1737 caused partial cracks in the third bell, which was completed. A section weighing 10,400 kg (more than ten tons) was shaken. Construction stopped there.
Attempts were made to raise the bell a little, but to no avail. Such attempts were made in 1792 and 1819, but were abandoned when the bell could not be raised.
In 1812, Napoleon Bonaparte tried to smuggle money into France during his Russian occupation, but abandoned the attempt due to its enormous size and weight. Finally a. D. In 1836, by the efforts of the French architect Augustine de Montferant, the bell was raised and a stone pedestal was erected nearby. The bell tent was also used as a Christian chapel for some time. The broken part also became the door of the chapel.
Even though the bell never rang out from this huge bell, it still remains the largest bell in the world. The bell, which is the largest working bell in the world, weighs three times as much as the bell at Liverpool Cathedral, but only for the broken piece of the bell .. !!