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Abraj Al Bait

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Abraj Al Bait, also known as the Clock Towers, is a government owned hotel complex of seven skyscraper hotels in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, part of the King Abdulaziz Endowment Project intended to modernize the city for its pilgrims. Its central hotel tower, the Mecca Royal Clock Tower, is the fourth tallest building and sixth tallest freestanding structure in the world, and according to Guinness World Records it carries the tallest clock tower in the world, with the largest clock faces in the world and a Clock Tower Museum occupying its top four floors; the complex of seven buildings is also, by cost, the world's second most expensive building.

Facts
Building Type
Hotel Complex 2
Location
Mecca, Saudi Arabia 2
Completed Year
2012 3
Height (m)
601 2
Classification
Standing StatusSourced to the subject's own account
Standing 1
Building Type
Building Type (category)
Hotel 2
Connections

Has Building Type

Hotel, Concepts

Entity-backed identity for the building-type enum value this building already carries, resolved to an architecture concept by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The building-type fact itself stays on the building unchanged.

In Style

New Classical Architecture, Styles and Movements
Source Abraj Al Bait (Wikipedia)
Postmodern Architecture, Styles and Movements
Source Abraj Al Bait (Wikipedia)

Uses Element

Marble, Architectural Materials
Source Abraj Al Bait (Wikipedia)
In the Other Atlases
Sources
1. Abraj Al Bait (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia Foundation
  • Entity description and the lead of the Wikipedia article
    Abraj Al Bait, also known as the Clock Towers, is a government owned hotel complex of seven skyscraper hotels in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, part of the King Abdulaziz Endowment Project intended to modernize the city for its pilgrims. Its central hotel tower, the Mecca Royal Clock Tower, is the fourth tallest building and sixth tallest freestanding structure in the world, and according to Guinness World Records it carries the tallest clock tower in the world, with the largest clock faces in the world and a Clock Tower Museum occupying its top four floors; the complex of seven buildings is also, by cost, the world's second most expensive building.
  • Uses Element: Marble, infobox material field: cladding includes marble (per structural system description)
  • In Style: Postmodern Architecture, Infobox, architectural_style
    architectural_style: Postmodern; New Classical
  • In Style: New Classical Architecture, Infobox, architectural_style
    architectural_style: Postmodern; New Classical
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2. Wikipedia
Wikimedia Foundation
  • en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraj_Al_Bait, infobox, Opening field
    Opening: 2012; 14 years ago (2012)
  • en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraj_Al_Bait, body text, tallest-tower-in-Saudi-Arabia sentence
    The tallest tower in the complex is the tallest building in Saudi Arabia, at 601 m (1,972 ft).
  • en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraj_Al_Bait, body text, complex-description sentence
    The Clock Towers is a government-owned hotel complex with seven skyscraper hotels in Mecca, Saudi Arabia.
  • en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraj_Al_Bait, body text, backing the entity description
    The Clock Towers is a government-owned hotel complex with seven skyscraper hotels in Mecca, Saudi Arabia.
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3. Wikidata: Abraj Al Bait
  • Wikidata Q189476, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)
  • Wikidata Q189476, P571 claim (w-bbfill-artsarchag-0926)
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