The sound of an iPhone ringing has temporarily replaced the pealing of church bells in a swiss town, much to the public's amusement, BBC reported.
The bells at St. Peters Chapel in Lucerne are inactive while the Catholic church undergoes renovations, and while it initially started out as a joke to replace the chiming bells with the sound of a mobile phone ringing, the idea soon became a reality.
The church enlisted the help of a few art students from the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences during its renovations, when one of them suggested the switch.
"We confide everything to our mobile phone," said one of the unnamed students working on the project, according to Travel and Leisure. "We communicate with them when alone, we ask them for advice. All of those tasks are actually attributed to the gods."
The humor was not lost on passersby.
"We thought it was a telephone, a cell phone ringing. But I told them it was God calling," an unidentified tourist said.
For those who find the incessant ringing of a cell phone annoying, the good news is that the ringtones are not a permanent fixture. As of July 30, the project will end.
Church bells are most commonly associated with the welcoming of a congregation but they are also capable of producing beautiful music, if used correctly.
A church in Utrecht in the Netherlands paid tribute to David Bowie with a cover of "Space Oddity" while the bell tower of Sydney University recreated an intricate cover of Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody," Reader's Digest noted.
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