wooden church architecture of Ukraine

There are quite a lot of bells in Ukraine. They appeared in different periods of the history of sacred construction. The presence of towers-bells with "subterranean", churches with belfries over the maidens, empores and specially built bells for bells, points to the fact that in the Ukrainian ethnic territory ancient architectural solutions to the bell structures that were formed under the influence of Western European and local schools were preserved wooden construction. At the turn of the 16th and 17th centuries bells are looking for their place in church building.