Lutheran Church in Mošovce

Description

The church is a rectangular building, reconstructed in 1927, specific for its simple

Bells

The tower's belfry hosts three

• a period of tolling on a single bell followed by a pause - all repeated twice: death of a woman
• a period of tolling on a single bell followed by a pause - all repeated three times: death of a man
• these periods, called the pulsing are followed by the tolling of all three bells.
• the above formula is used on the day, when the person in question had died. Thereafter, every day until the funeral, all three bells are tolled at a given hour.
• similarly, all the bells toll at one year's anniversary of a person's death.
• originally, the size of the tolling bell was selected according to the age of the deceased: the smallest one in case of the death of a child, the middle one upon the passing of an adult, and the largest one when the deceased was an elderly - today, this tradition is no longer observed.

Originally, until the beginning of the 1990s, the bells also announced the time using chimes of the smallest bell:

• 1 chime : quarter past
• 2 chimes: half past
• 3 chimes: quarter to
• 4 chimes: whole hour; whereas after a short pause followed another series of chimes corresoding to the current hour
• tolling of all bells also marked the morning at 6:00 a.m., the noon at 12:00 p.m. and night at 18:00 p.m.

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