🏛 Epiphany Cathedral Bell Tower

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A red-brick bell tower from 1897, the tallest in Kazan; through its arch you can see the cathedral courtyard where Chaliapin was baptised.

It is the tallest bell tower in Kazan and one of the tallest Orthodox bell towers.
It was completed on 17 August 1897 with money bequeathed by the merchant Ivan Krivonosov.
Almost two million bricks went into its construction.
In 1901 lightning struck the bell tower and the beams under the big bell caught fire.
Fyodor Chaliapin was baptised in the Epiphany Church on 2 February 1873.
Since 2001 the Chaliapin chamber hall has operated in the bell tower.

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