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 | It is capable of carrying 3,000 people at the same time |
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The period in which the tower is built, Which extends from 1887 to 1889 standard for the tools used in that era, and for the size of the tower, it consists of 18,038 pieces of iron, and 2 | As different as Germany, Austria, Italy, the Emirates and Turkey, the clock tower has set 30 world records once its construction is completed |
It also features the John Verne restaurant, which can seat up to 95 seats.
1The 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 | The restaurant was awarded a star by the famous Guid Michelin and also managed by the Alain Ducasse team |
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The clock tower in Markka is one of the most important cultural landmarks that decorate Markka Al-Musharraf, and gained its importance because it is located next to the Great Mosque of Mecca, located in the central region of Markka | The clock tower is owned by the Ministry of Islamic Affairs of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia |
It was completed in 1959, covering about ten million houses with radio and television programs | The second floor of the tower The second floor of the tower rises 115 meters from the surface |
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In 1957, a television broadcasting column was installed at the top of the tower | 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 |
The foundations were established in the first five months, and the construction of the tower took twenty-one months.
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