Antique Bronze Temple/Shrine Bell – Great Sound!

Antique Bronze Temple/Shrine Bell – E6 (1296Hz)

Size: 5 ¼ x 3 ½ inches (13 x 9 cm). Weight: 0 lb 15 oz (423 grams)

This antique bronze bell or ghanta is of a type commonly found adorning a small roadside shrine, or a shrine within a temple.

There are normally a dozen or more bells threaded along a brass bar, all similar in size but slightly different because they are individually cast, for worshipers to brush with their hand and ring in passing. This bell might have hung over a shrine for a hundred years or more, and been rung daily by countless worshipers.

Shrine bells are occasionally renewed as their rings wear thin, and sometimes a shrine might be destroyed or abandoned and their bells end up in an antique shop.

This old bronze bell is clean and in particularly good condition…the only slight wear being, as expected, inside the top of the bell’s ring, where it has swung back and forth on the bar.

Antique bronze shrine bells like this are few and far between, and are highly prized by religious practitioners, shaman, yogis, healers and sound therapists, as well as serious collectors.   This bell is nice to hold and has a great sound. It could make a nice dinner bell.

When you buy, handle, and ring this antique ritual bell you can be confident that it is a genuine and revered holy instrument that has played an important part in countless sacred rituals and ceremonies for at least 100 years. It is a fascinating and beautiful object in its own right, with the look and feel of antiquity…but perhaps more importantly, when it is rung one can sense the spiritual energy, power and purpose with which it is imbued, and the present ineffably connects to the past.

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Listen to this bell.