A massive Russian church bell that hung for decades at Harvard was returned to a Moscow monastery yesterday, nearly 80 years after it and 17 others were rescued from Stalin's religious purges by a US industrialist.
Hundreds of believers flocked to the Danilovsky Monastery, home to the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, for the ceremony to bless the bronze bell, officially known as the Everyday Bell. The remaining 17 bells will be shipped to Russia next year.
American industrialist Charles R Crane bought the 18 brass bells from the Soviet government in 1930, saving them from being melted down in Josef Stalin's purges that saw thousands of monks executed and churches and monasteries destroyed or turned into prisons, orphanages or animal barns.
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Hundreds of believers flocked to the Danilovsky Monastery, home to the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, for the ceremony to bless the bronze bell, officially known as the Everyday Bell. The remaining 17 bells will be shipped to Russia next year.
American industrialist Charles R Crane bought the 18 brass bells from the Soviet government in 1930, saving them from being melted down in Josef Stalin's purges that saw thousands of monks executed and churches and monasteries destroyed or turned into prisons, orphanages or animal barns.
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