Quote Originally Posted by it-ogo View Post
A steeple building is колокольня;
By the way, колокол is "a (large) bell" -- so a колокольня gets its name because that's where the church bells are.

(Although a колокольня can also be on a "secular" building instead of a church. In which case we'd call it a "bell tower" in English, and not a "steeple" -- that word specifically and exclusively means "церковная колокольня".)