| 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 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 |
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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 |
As different as Germany, Austria, Italy, the Emirates and Turkey, the clock tower has set 30 world records once its construction is completed.
11| 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 | 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 | 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 |