MEDJUGORJE : BOSNIA

*Location:

   Shrine of Our Lady Queen of Peace
   Crkva Sv.Jakova (St.James Church)
   Medjugorje, Bosnia
     (formerly part of Yugoslavia)
   LL: N 43.225, E 17.693

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*Player:

   (unknown)

*Contact:

   Information Centre
   Gospin trg 1
   88266 Medjugorge
   Bosnia i Hercegovina
   T: +387-36-653-350   F: +387-36-653-390
   E: icmm@medjugorje.hr

*Schedule:

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*Remarks:

   Originally reported as
   St.Mary's RC Cathedral

*Technical data:

   Traditional carillon of 47 bells
   Pitch of heaviest bell is F  in the middle octave
   Transposition is unknown
   Keyboard range:     ----  /    ----  
   There are two missing bass semitones
   The whole instrument was installed in 1990
     with bells made by Eijsbouts   
   Year of latest technical information source is 1991

*Links:

The Wikipedia article about this place has photos of the building, clickable for large and huge versions, bells slightly visible in the right-hand tower.

Where this work lies in the sequence of output of the Eijsbouts bellfoundry, in this region and in the world.

Ranking among all European traditional carillons by pitch (weight).
Ranking among all European traditional carillons by size (number of bells).
Ranking among all European traditional carillons by year of completion.

Index to all tower bell instruments in Bosnia.

*Status:

   This page was built from the database on 14-Nov-07
   based on textual data last updated on 2007/11/02
   and on technical data last updated on 1992/05/05

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