![]() ![]() 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. Okaz did not report their names or nationalities.From the following picture we can see how close the Makkah Clock Tower is from the Kabaa. Three defendants were sentenced to six months in jail and fined 30,000 riyals ($8,000) and another four were sentenced to three months and fined 15,000 riyals (about $4,000). The Okaz daily reported Tuesday that the company was fined 20 million Saudi riyals, or about $5.3 million, for negligence and violation of safety regulations. 11 crane collapse, a stampede and crush of pilgrims killed more than 2,400 people, according to an Associated Press count. Buffetted by strong winds, the 1,350-ton crane collapsed onto the Grand Mosque that houses Islam’s holiest site, the cube-shaped Kaaba, bringing down slabs of concrete on worshippers below. More than 100 people were killed in the incident. DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - A criminal court has imposed a $5.3 million fine on the Saudi BinLadin Group and sentenced seven people to prison over the deadly collapse of a crane ahead of the 2015 hajj pilgrimage, a leading Saudi daily reported. ![]()
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