Name of each buildingĪs the population of Muslim around the world keeps growing, and with the improvement of traffic, more and more Muslim are making pilgrimage to Mecca. The back row: there are 5 buildings, from the left to the right are Maqam Tower, Hajar Tower, Makkah Royal Clock Hotel Tower(Clock Tower), Zamzam Tower, Qibla Tower.īelow are some basic data of all these 7 buildings. Look at the front row, there are two symmetrical buildings, the one on the left is called Safa Tower, the right one is called Marwah Tower, As shown in the picture, the two skirt buildings on the leftmost and rightmost along with the two in the front are all served as residences, the other two skirt buildings right beside the central clock tower are hotels, the clock tower itself has hotels and also functions something others that is mentioned above.įrom the picture above we can see that Abraj Al Bait consists of seven separated high-rise buildings, roughly divided into front row and back row. Inside the Central Clock Tower, there's a museum which features a collection of works of Islamic Art. The clock can broadcast the prayer to the believers through loudspeakers, the sound of messages can spread to seven kilometers away. The initial purpose of building the Clock Tower is to use it as a well-marked clock for pilgrims to proofread time. The parking garage of the building occupies 4 floors, capable of holding more than 1000 vehicles.Īside from the park, there are 2 helipads on the roofs of Maqam and Qibla towers respectively, which are two podium buildings right beside the Central Clock Tower. There is a prayer room that can accommodate more than ten thousand people. The hotel has two large prayer rooms for men and women relatively. The hotel also features a conference center, including a series of meeting rooms, capable of holding about 1500 people. The first 5 floors at the bottom of the Makkah Clock Tower are used as a shopping Mall, the layout and style of the mall is similar with the traditional shopping markets in Arabia world. Inside the suit, the Grand Mosque outside the window can be clearly seen.Īmong all 6 high-rise buildings of Abraj Al Bait, 4 of them are residential towers, containing a total of 864 residential units. The buildings mainly used as hotels, which contain 858 suits, operated by Fairmont Hotels and Resorts, a Canadian operator of 5-star luxury hotels, it operates more than 60 landmark luxury hotels in the world, such as Fairmont San Francisco and Shanghai Peace Hotel, which are all located in the cities' central plots. Makkah Royal Clock Hotel Tower and the whole complex are not simply used as hotels, it also contains shopping mall, Islamic museum, residences and a considerable amount of area of religious spaces like prayer rooms, by which its location makes sense. The owner of the Abraj Al Bait complex is the Ministry of Islamic Affairs, which is operated by Government of Saudi Arabia. look up at Abraj Al Bait Aerial view of Abraj Al Bait With all these giant buildings connected together, Abraj Al Bait appears very imposing and magnificent, far more majestic than Ryugyong Hotel in Pyongyang. Abraj Al Bait has the largest floor area among the skyscraper buildings in the world, it is composed of 7 individual towers of different heights, aside from the central clock tower, all the other shorter towers are over 230 meters, and the 2 beside the Middle Tower stand 280 meters. The most outstanding feature is not its height but also bulk. The significant height of the tower makes it visible at some remote places as far as 17 kilometers away. The highest habitable floor is at 450 meters, and the highest accessible floor for visitors is at 393 meters. The height of each of four clocks is 46 meters, the middle point of each clock face is 430 meters high from the street level. Makkah Clock Tower looks very majestic from the west Even the crescent alone which is attached at the peak of the tower contributes 23 meters to the height of the tower, approximately equals to the height of a 7-story building. The Clock Tower situated in the middle of the complex is 2 meters taller than Shenzhen's Ping An Finance Center, a tower looks very high. The height comparison is shown in the video below. The Central Tower (Makkah Clock Tower) of the complex stands 601 meters (1972 feet) tall and has 120 floors, as of 2023 it's the 4th tallest building among all the completed and topped out buildings around the world, only after Burj Khalifa, Merdeka 118, and Shanghai Tower, see World's tallest buildings in 2023 for details. From the following picture we can see how close the Makkah Clock Tower is from the Kabaa.
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