Zvonnitsa

Zvonnitsa (Russian: звонница; Ukrainian: дзвіниця, dzvinytsia; Polish: dzwonnica parawanowa; Romanian: zvoniţă) is a large rectangular structure containing multiple archs or beams that carry bells, where bell ringers stand on its base level and perform the ringing using long ropes, like playing on a kind of giant musical instrument. It was an alternative to bell tower in Russian, Polish and Romanian medieval architectural tradition.