The Old Trinity Church, of which only the bell tower has survived to this day, was consecrated on October 19, 1694. Locals call it the Yaran Candle, while wits have nicknamed it the 'broken pencil.' The official name is the Old Trinity Bell Tower. It is remarkable that after the demolition of the old building of the Church of the Holy Trinity, the bell tower remained untouched. According to one version, the architect of the new church, Konstantin Ton, appealed to the church and secular authorities to preserve this significant architectural monument of the Vyatka region. His opinion was supported. There is also a legend that the bell tower was preserved by wealthy parishioners, the merchant families of Nosov and Unzhenkov, who wished to keep it in memory of their church. Their request was honored, considering their contribution to the construction of the new church.

In any case, one of the oldest buildings in Yaran has survived to this day. According to legend, a young Chuvash pagan was bricked into the foundation of the bell tower for trying to hinder the construction of the first Trinity Church. There was also a legend about an underground passage beneath the bell tower, but no evidence has been found to support this. The names of the builders of the bell tower have not survived, but their craftsmanship deserves respect, as they created such a durable monument. The dome, according to some reports, was blown off by a hurricane during a storm in the summer of 1955. The bell tower even survived the Soviet era, when many church buildings were repurposed.

The octagonal base of the 40-meter tower with five tiers invariably amazes tourists. Today, the 'Yaran Candle' is the only representative of Moscow's Naryshkin Baroque in the architecture of the Vyatka region. According to archival data, by the beginning of the 19th century, the belfry housed 10 bells, the sound of which spread across the area. On October 18, 1924, the Old Trinity Bell Tower was included in the list of monuments of church architecture in the Vyatka province, registered by the Department of Museums of the Main Science of the RSFSR. The bell tower requires careful maintenance and reinforcement, as its age now exceeds three centuries. Its unique silhouette, an integral part of the panorama of Yaran, would be extremely unwise to lose.