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 | It can be accessed by an electric elevator |
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It is built by Gustav Eiffel, the tower named after his name, On the occasion of the Paris International Exposition in 1889, and with the passage of time became the Eiffel Tower a symbol of the French capital Paris, and is the first tourist site | 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 Eiffel tower The Eiffel tower is 324 meters tall and is located in France, specifically in Paris, in the far north-west of the Champ de Mars park near the Seine River.
13The clock tower is owned by the Ministry of Islamic Affairs of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia | 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 |
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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 | It also features the John Verne restaurant, which can seat up to 95 seats |
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24The work ended on March 31, 1889, and officially opened in May 1889 | The first floor has a two-level restaurant, offering a beautiful view of the picturesque city of Paris |
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The Eiffel Tower design The Eiffel Tower was built on 26 January 1887 and continues to be built for 26 months, And fifty engineers, and three hundred workers participated in the construction of The Eiffel Tower | 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.
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