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.
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1. Abraj Al Bait (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia Foundationen.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).
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The Clock Towers (Arabic: أبراج الساعة, romanized: ʾAbrāj as-Sāʿaẗ, lit. 'Towers of the Clock', formerly known as Abraj al-Bait Arabic: أبراج البيت, romanized: ʾAbrāj al-Bayt, lit. 'Towers of the House') is a government-owned hotel complex with seven skyscraper hotels in Mecca, Saudi Arabia.
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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.
- 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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Wikimedia Foundationen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraj_Al_Bait, infobox, Opening fieldQuote, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraj_Al_Bait, infobox, Opening field
Opening: 2012; 14 years ago (2012)
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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