The Emmanuel UCC Church in Bowmanstown has closed and its iconic bell was moved to a new location on Tuesday. Presented to the then Immanuel Reform Church on Christmas Day in 1908 by the Sunday School ...
Bells were once pivotal in Steuben County's small towns, sounding alarms or marking specific times. Many are still around.
Grace Episcopal Church in Oak Park will ring its century-old Seabury Chime bells once again after a three-year silence.
Manchester Cathedral's bells, which have turned 100 years old, are set to be refurbished and a new unique chime will be composed for the city. To mark the centenary, the cathedral has announced a £600 ...
The restoration of the historic cast-iron bell at Ebenezer AME Church in Lincolnville took place this summer. To celebrate its return to the bell tower and the church’s 147 th anniversary, a ceremony ...
There pealed out on the soft evening air of Redlands last night the tones of that beloved hymn “Abide With Me,” and thus the world was told that a set of memorial chimes, which for many years to come ...
Philadelphia's oldest church is restoring a bell connected to the first celebrations of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Gloria Dei Episcopal Church – also known as Old Swede's — ...
I touched a piece of history this past week from 172 years ago. It came off the top of the church where I am pastor. We’d been noticing some water damage on the ceiling above our balcony in the ...
ANTIOCH – For the Zamora family, the sound of the 700-pound First Congregational Church bell in Antioch isn’t just a piece of history, it was a part of their childhood. Roxanne Zamora-Solak remembers ...
After 177 years, a stolen bell is returning to the First Presbyterian Church in Iowa City. Reverend Michael Hummer, the church's co-founder, stole the bell in 1848 after being expelled for his ...