Heaviest Bell in the World
- China
- Germany
- Japan
- Myanmar
- Romania
- Russia
- U.S.
- Vietnam
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Name of bell (or edifice containing bell): Bell of Good Luck
Locality: Henan
City: Pingdingshan
Edifiice: Foquan Temple
Weight: 116,000 kg (256,000 lb)
Year cast: 2000
Manufacturer or foundry: Tianrui Group
Notes: currently the heaviest functioning bell in the world
Name of bell (or edifice containing bell): Yongle Bell
City: Beijing
Weight: 42,000 kg (93,000 lb)
Year cast: 1420
Manufacturer or foundry: unknown
Name of bell (or edifice containing bell): St. Petersglocke
City: Cologne
Edifiice: Cologne Cathedral
Weight: 23,900 kg (52,800 lb)
Year cast: 1923
Manufacturer or foundry: Heinrich Ulrich
Notes: The heaviest bell in the world which hangs on a straight bar.
Name of bell (or edifice containing bell): Gotenba Bell
Locality: Shizuoka
City: Gotemba
Edifiice: Toki no Sumika Park
Weight: 36,170 kg (79,750 lb)
Year cast: 2006
Manufacturer or foundry: Royal Eijsbouts bell foundry
Name of bell (or edifice containing bell): Tōdai-ji Temple Bell
City: Nara
Weight: 44,000 kg (96,000 lb)
Year cast: 732
Manufacturer or foundry: unknown
Name of bell (or edifice containing bell): Chion-in Temple Bell
City: Kyoto
Weight: 67,000 kg (148,000 lb)
Year cast: 1633
Manufacturer or foundry: unknown
Name of bell (or edifice containing bell): Singu Min Bell
City: Yangon
Edifiice: Shwedagon Pagoda
Weight: 23,000 kg (50,600 lb)
Year cast: 1779
Manufacturer or foundry: Singu Min
Name of bell (or edifice containing bell): Tharrawaddy Min Bell
City: Yangon
Edifiice: Shwedagon Pagoda
Weight: 38,000 kg (84,000 lb)
Year cast: 1842
Manufacturer or foundry: Maha Sithu and Maha Min Kyaw Thinkhaya
Name of bell (or edifice containing bell): Mingun Bell
City: Mingun
Weight: 90,718 kg (199,998 lb)
Year cast: 1808
Manufacturer or foundry: King Bodawpaya
Notes: Weighs 55,555 viss, or exactly 199,998 pounds.
Name of bell (or edifice containing bell): Big Bell (People's Salvation Cathedral)
City: Bucharest
Edifiice: People's Salvation Cathedral
Weight: 25,190 kg (55,534 lb)
Year cast: 2016
Manufacturer or foundry: Grassmayr
Notes: The heaviest swinging bell in the world.
Name of bell (or edifice containing bell): Tsar Bell
City: Moscow
Edifiice: Moscow Kremlin
Weight: 201,924 kg (445,166 lb)
Year cast: 1735
Manufacturer or foundry: Ivan Feodorovich Motorin
Notes: broken
Name of bell (or edifice containing bell): Sysoi
Locality: Yaroslavl Oblast
City: Rostov-Velikij
Edifiice: Assumption Cathedral in Rostov
Weight: 24,000 kg (52,000 lb)
Year cast: 1689
Manufacturer or foundry: Flor Terentyev
Name of bell (or edifice containing bell): Saint Sophia Cathedral
Locality: Novgorod Oblast
City: Veliky Novgorod
Weight: 26,438 kg (58,286 lb)
Year cast: 1659
Manufacturer or foundry: unknown
Name of bell (or edifice containing bell): Evangelist (bell)
Locality: Moscow Oblast
City: Sergiyev Posad
Edifiice: Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius
Weight: 26,900 kg (59,400 lb)
Year cast: 2002
Manufacturer or foundry: Zavod imeni Likhacheva, Moscow, Russia
Name of bell (or edifice containing bell): Torzhestvennyj Bell
City: Moscow
Edifiice: Cathedral of Christ the Saviour
Weight: 27,102 kg (59,749 lb)
Year cast: 1878
Manufacturer or foundry: unknown
Name of bell (or edifice containing bell): Saint Isaac's Cathedral
City: Saint Petersburg
Weight: 30,477 kg (67,191 lb)
Year cast: mid-19th century
Manufacturer or foundry: unknown
Name of bell (or edifice containing bell): Kazansky Monastery
Locality: Tambov Oblast
City: Tambov
Weight: 32,761 kg (72,226 lb)
Manufacturer or foundry: unknown
Name of bell (or edifice containing bell): Kirillo-Belozersky Monastery
Locality: Vologda Oblast
City: Tambov
Weight: 32,761 kg (72,226 lb)
Manufacturer or foundry: unknown
Name of bell (or edifice containing bell): Yuriev Monastery
Locality: Novgorod Oblast
City: Veliky Novgorod
Weight: 34,399 kg (75,837 lb)
Manufacturer or foundry: unknown
Name of bell (or edifice containing bell): Savvino-Storozhevsky Monastery
Locality: Moscow Oblast
City: Zvenigorod
Weight: 35,000 kg (77,000 lb)
Year cast: 2003
Manufacturer or foundry: Vera LLC, Shilova, Voronezh, Russia
Name of bell (or edifice containing bell): Blagovestnik (also known as Firstborn)
Locality: Moscow Oblast
City: Sergiyev Posad
Edifiice: Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius
Weight: 35,490 kg (78,250 lb)
Year cast: 2002
Manufacturer or foundry: Zavod imeni Likhacheva, Moscow, Russia
Name of bell (or edifice containing bell): Name unknown
City: Moscow
Weight: 40,000 kg (88,000 lb)
Year cast: 1600
Manufacturer or foundry: Andrey Chokhov
Name of bell (or edifice containing bell): Great Uspensky Bell (also known as Great Assumption Bell)
City: Moscow
Edifiice: Moscow Kremlin
Weight: 65,522 kg (144,452 lb)
Year cast: 1817
Manufacturer or foundry: Yakov Zavyalov and Rusinov
Name of bell (or edifice containing bell): Tsarsky Kolokol
Locality: Moscow Oblast
City: Sergiyev Posad
Edifiice: Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius
Weight: 71,800 kg (158,400 lb)
Year cast: 2004
Manufacturer or foundry: Zavod imeni Likhacheva, Moscow, Russia
Name of bell (or edifice containing bell): World Peace Bell
Locality: Kentucky
City: Newport
Weight: 33,285 kg (73,381 lb)
Year cast: 1998
Manufacturer or foundry: Fonderie Paccard
Name of bell (or edifice containing bell): Đại hồng chung
Locality: Ninh Binh
City: Gia Vien
Edifiice: Bai Dinh Pagoda
Weight: 35,986 kg (79,336 lb)
Year cast: 2007
Manufacturer or foundry: Nguyễn Văn Sở, Huế, Vietnam