| The clock was designed in the Islamic style, and contains the highest observation platform in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia at 558 meters above ground level | The buildings in Abraj Al Bait are used mainly as hotels, as they contain 858 suites and are managed by Fairmont Hotels, the first five floors of the Clock Tower are used as shopping centers, and inside the hotel there is a conference center and meeting rooms that can accommodate up to 1500 people, and there are four floors dedicated inside the building For Car parking, it can accommodate more than 1000 cars |
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| As different as Germany, Austria, Italy, the Emirates and Turkey, the clock tower has set 30 world records once its construction is completed | The decorated clock faces are covered with 98 million pieces of colored glass mosaic, the length of the minute hands is 22 meters, the length of the hour hands is 17 meters, and the weight of each hour hand weighs 6 tons, the lighting system in the clock tower depends on LED lighting, up to two million lights are used LED to light up the Makkah clock at night |
Markka clock tower is 35 times larger than Big Bin in London The height of the tower reaches 601 meters, and this thing made it the third largest building in the world after the Burj Khalifa and the Shanghai Tower, and the highest clock in the world, the timing can be seen 17 km from this tower, the crescent alone at the top of the tower contributes 23 meters to the height of the tower , Roughly the height of a 7-story building.
18| The clock tower consists of 120 floors, the clock consists of four faces, the size of the front faces is 43 x 43 meters, and the size of the back faces is 43 x 39 meters | |
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| The clock tower is not used as hotels only, but the tower includes an Islamic museum, a shopping center, a moon investigation center and a prayer hall that can accommodate ten thousand people, and the total weight of the Makkah Clock is 36 thousand tons | As for the clock engines, each engine weighs more than 21 thousand tons, which makes the engines of the clock tower from The heaviest and largest engines ever made |