The restored bell of First Baptist Church resounded through Scotland Street on Sunday, as congregation members sounded the bell for the first time since the days of segregation. Though the Let Freedom ...

So it went unrung for several years until a separate concrete-block tower was built for it as part of a 1908 church expansion. Westlake United Methodist undertook what turned out to be a yearslong ...

SNOHOMISH — The church bell echoed through the Snohomish River valley. Farmers heard the sound and knew. The service was starting soon. Time to get going. A hundred years ago, locals gathered at the ...

Fr. Don Antweiler uses his knuckles to rap on the church bell in the tower at Immaculate Conception Church. With money received specifically for that purpose, the parish recently had an automated ...

WILLIAMSBURG, Va. (AP) — A Williamsburg church founded by slaves marked its 240th anniversary with the sounding of a restored bell to mark the start of Black History Month. The First Baptist Church ...

Ringing the handheld Sanctus bells during the consecration and elevation of the Host and chalice at Mass is a familiar sound in many churches. Yet another centuries-old practice has remained in some ...

Following an extensive restoration project, the 145-year-old bell in the tower of St. John's Episcopal Church began to regularly ring again in June. Steve Hamm / Special Contributor The loud silence ...

EMMASTE, Estonia -- Just days before Christmas, a lone church bell clangs in this forested hamlet, sending out echoes much like those of thousands of church bells in towns and cities around the world.

What does a 200-ton bell sound like? It’s an academic question, as the only accessible bell of that size broke beyond repair shortly after manufacture in 1732 in Russia. The Tsar Bell captured the ...