Bells in non-Christian places of worship

[David Hope]

The Buddhists, and earlier religions, have a very long tradition of gongs and bells.

David

--- In bellhistorians at yahoogroups.com, "Peter Rivet" <peter at ...> wrote:
>
> I was looking into buildings designed by David Mocatta, who was responsible
> for Brighton Station and a number of other structures on the London to
> Brighton railway, and came across this:
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montefiore_Synagogue
> 
> From this you will see that it has - unusually for a synagogue - a chiming
> clock.
> 
> Does anyone know anything about the bell or bells supplied to go with it?
> For an 1833 building designed by an architect with London connections
> (Mocatta was a pupil of Nash) I would expect something from Whitechapel, but
> it would be interesting to know.
> 
> Peter Rivet
>