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 ...

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 ...

A set of antique bells given to Harvard University in 1930 is creating a bigger din than officials want to hear. The bells once belonged to Moscow’s Saint Danilov Monastery, thought to be the oldest ...

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Lowell House’s historic Russian bells are officially headed back to the motherland, following a formal agreement inked in Moscow Tuesday between Harvard representatives and officials from the Danilov ...

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 ...

While sitting quietly at home, in what is fast becoming the evening of my lifetime, I have the solitude to cherish the many profound boyhood hours I spent at the now-closed Abbey of the Holy Trinity ...

Every morning Father Roman winds his way up a narrow, stone stairway to take his place on a platform high above Moscow's rooftops. A softly spoken young monk with a long wispy beard, Father Roman has ...

GLENWOOD — June Kasparek works the graveyard shift and wakes every morning to the loud clanging of bells. The nurse goes to bed at 6 a.m. after working a 12-hour shift at Florida Hospital DeLand. The ...

Russia is bringing home from the United States 18 sacred Moscow monastery bells that had been sold as scrap by the Soviet Union. Charles Crane, a U.S. industrialist and diplomat, bought the Danilovsky ...