Bell Tower

Bell tower (wat)

Bell tower is one category of the Thai architectural structure in a wat for signaling the monks to do their praying ceremony.

Bell tower (Chinese Buddhism)

The bell tower is an important building in Han Chinese Buddhist temples. Together with the drum tower, they are usually placed on both sides of the Hall of Four Heavenly Kings. It is usually on the left side while the drum tower is on the right side. Generally, bell towers are three-storey pavilions with a large bell hung inside. The loud and melodious sound of the bell is often used to convene monks. Sounding the bell 108 times every morning and night symbolizes relief of the 108 kinds of trouble in the human world.

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.

Bell

A bell is a directly struck idiophone percussion instrument. Most bells have the shape of a hollow cup that—when struck—vibrates in a single strong strike tone, with its sides forming an efficient resonator. The strike may be made by an internal "clapper" or "uvula", an external hammer, or—in small bells—by a small loose sphere enclosed within the body of the bell.

bell tower

Noun

1. A tower in which a bell (or set of bells) is hung; a belfry.