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. In total, up to 65,000 people would be housed inside the Towers.From the following picture we can see how close the Makkah Clock Tower is from the Kabaa. Residential towers will house permanent residents while two heliports and a conference center are to accommodate business travellers. In addition, the Abraj Al Bait Towers will have a four-story shopping mall and a parking garage capable of holding over eight hundred vehicles. It will contain a five-star hotel to help accommodate the over two million pilgrims who participate in hajj each year. As a result, the Abraj Al Bait Towers will have a large prayer room capable of holding nearly four thousand worshippers. The site of the structure is across the street from the entrance to the Masjid al Haram, which houses the Kaaba, the holiest site in Islam. It will be the largest (not tallest) building in the world by mass, the tallest building in Saudi Arabia, and one of the tallest buildings in the world at 577 m. The Abraj Al Bait Towers is a building complex under construction (Completion 2008) in Mecca, Saudi Arabia.
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