When you build a church, you achieve an incomparable feat. Your children and grandchildren will be baptized and married there, and soon enough you will be led into the heavenly Kingdom from this very place. Every church needs a voice.
Every church needs good bells.
Bells have rung in Russia for a thousand years, the sonic heartbeat of Christianity. After Perestroika, Bell companies had to begin again, not exactly from scratch, but yet without the guidance that would have been available, had that darkness not interposed. We welcome the opportunity to introduce genuine Orthodox bells and bell traditions to the West. The day that a church establishes an exterior acoustical space is an important one in the development of culture in any land. In the old days, awesome and earth-shaking utterances from the enormous bells of Moscow, Kiev, and St. Petersburg stunned the listener and conveyed a powerful impression, felt more than heard, of the presence and power of Christ from in whose temples and monasteries they hung.