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The entire cost of the tower, which was Rs 2 lakh in 1878, was sponsored by Premchand Roychand, on the condition that it be named after his mother Rajabai.ĭon’t miss out on ET Prime stories! Get your daily dose of business updates on WhatsApp.

Located in the Fort campus of the Mumbai university, the tower was modelled on Big Ben and designed by Sir George Gilbert Scott.

Previously called the Library Tower, the name was later changed to honour Jennie McGraw, who donated the chimes, and her father, trustee John McGraw. Situated in the central campus of Cornell university in Ithaca, New York, the Cornell chimes - a 21-bell chime in the McGraw Tower - first rang at the university's opening ceremony in 1868. According to the Saudi Ministry of Religious Endowments, the project, including the five-storey mall, residential towers with two heliports and a conference centre, cost $15 billion. It is a construction project full of superlatives: the worlds largest tower clock in Mecca, the Holy City of Islam. The clock itself is the world's largest clock face and the building is metres from Islam's most sacred site, Masjid al-Haram. The building at the center of the sacred site breaks over 30 world records its giant clock face is 43 meters in size, the minute hand measures 23 meters in length and the clock drives weigh 21 tons a piece. Also known as the Makkah Royal Clock Tower Hotel, the clock tower is at the pinnacle of the fourth largest free-standing structure in the world.

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