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(15 Jan 2004) 1. Wide of the Trinity St. Sergius Monastery 2. Trinity St. Sergius Monastery onion domes with bells ringing 3. Czar Bell 4. Various close of carvings on Czar Bell 5. Various workers enlarging the entrance 6. People watching 7. Czar Bell unhoisted 8. SOUNDBITE: (Russian) Father Superior Porfiriy (orthodox monks only use first names): "The return of the Czar Bell should be viewed as a call for - and the symbol of - repentance. The first, original, bell was the symbol of Russia's greatness, but it is difficult to talk about greatness and spirituality in Russia's current state." 9. Church domes 10. Czar Bell being eased towards the gates 11. Various of people watching 12. Various of the bell being lifted off the platform 13. Czar Bell being pushed through the gates 14. Fragment of the gate painting 15. Various of the bell being towed through the gates 16. Monks watching 17. Pigeons with church at the background STORYLINE: Monks and Russian Orthodox believers have welcomed the arrival of a gargantuan bell at the Trinity St. Sergius Monastery as part of a project to replace bells destroyed under the Soviet Union's atheism campaign. The 72-ton (79 tonne) Czar Bell - more than five times as heavy as London's Big Ben - is to be hung in the tower of the monastery outside Moscow, one of Russian Orthodoxy's holiest sites. The Czar Bell is a replica of a 1748 bell by the same name destroyed during Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin's campaign against religion in the 1930's. It is the third bell to be replaced in the monastery, where some 40 bells were wrecked. After a three-day trip by truck from its casting site in St. Petersburg the bell stood outside the white crenelated walls of the monastery, waiting to be hoisted into the bell tower. At the end of an outdoor service commemorating its arrival, believers kissed the bell or placed their foreheads on it. Monastery officials said the bell will be ringing by Easter. Under Stalin, thousands of church bells were smashed and re-smelted across the Soviet Union as churches were razed and monks executed. Churches that were not torn down were used as breweries, factories, secret police facilities and for other purposes. The collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 brought a strong revival in the church. Keyword-WACKY Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...