| 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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| The Makkah Clock was constructed over an iron structure weighing 12 thousand tons, and the structure consists The iron made of 14 thousand unique parts, 7 cranes were used above the clock tower to carry out the installation work, and four permanent cranes were added above the clock for maintenance work | 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 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.
| As different as Germany, Austria, Italy, the Emirates and Turkey, the clock tower has set 30 world records once its construction is completed | The clock tower is owned by the Ministry of Islamic Affairs of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia |
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| 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 | 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 |
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