This rather misses the point. In the early modern Ottoman Empire, bells were melted down to make cannon for their long war with Catholic Europe - the Orthodox were otherwise tolerated well and their religion was not suppressed. Brotton's "This Orient Isle" gives another angle - Protestant Elizabethan England exported scrapped bells to the Kingdom of Morocco in exchange for saltpetre, which the English needed for their war with the Catholic enemy.

Religious practice was sacrificed to the arms industry makes for a rather different song.

In some parts of the Orthodox world, bells were never used again. Romanian churches hammer on big planks.