Clock tower in Istanbul, Turkey
Dolmabahce Clock Tower
(
Turkish
:
Dolmabahce Saat Kulesi
) is a
clock tower
situated outside
Dolmabahce Palace
in
Istanbul
,
Turkey
. Its construction was ordered by
Ottoman
sultan
Abdulhamid II
(1842?1918) and designed by the court architect
Sarkis Balyan
between 1890 and 1895.
The clock tower was added to Dolmabahce Palace, and stands in front of its Treasury Gate on a square along the
European
waterfront of
Bosphorus
next to
Dolmabahce Mosque
. Designed in Ottoman
neo-baroque
style, the four-sided, four-story tower stands on a floor area of
8.5 × 8.5 m
(28 × 28 ft)
at a height of 27 m (89 ft). Its clock was manufactured by the renowned
French
clockmaker
house of
Jean-Paul Garnier
, and installed by the court clock master Johann Mayer. Its face features highly stylised
Eastern Arabic numerals
. In 1979, the original mechanical
clock
was converted partly to an electrical one. Two opposing sides of the tower bear the
tughra
of Sultan Abdul Hamid II.
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References
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Gezgor, Vahide (1987). "Dolmabahce Saat Kulesi".
Milli Saraylar Dergisi
(1). ?stanbul: 124.
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