World’s Biggest Clock in MAKKAH MUKARMAH

**کنعان** · 12-08-10, 12:51 AM

Kuwait Times
Published Date: August 11, 2010

MAKKAH: Muslims around the world could be setting their
watches to a new time soon when the world's largest clock begins ticking
atop a soaring skyscraper in Islam's holiest city of Makkah. Saudi Arabia
hopes the four faces of the new clock, which will loom over Makkah's Grand
Mosque from what is expected to be the world's second tallest building, will
establish Mecca as an alternate time standard to the Greenwich median.

The clock is targeted to enter service with a three-month trial period in the
first week of the holy month of Ramadan on or about August 12, according
to the Saudi state news agency SPA. It boasts four glimmering 46 m-across
faces of high-tech composite tiles, some laced with gold, sitting more
than 400m over the Holy Haram compound.

The tower's height will reach 601 m, SPA said. On its website, Premiere
Composite, which is responsible for cladding the top section, including a
shimmering spire topped by a golden crescent moon, puts the planned height
at 590 m. That would make it the world's second tallest building - ahead of
Taiwan's 509 m Taipei 101, but well behind the Burj Khalifa, the 828 m
skyscraper inaugurated in Dubai in January.

Some 250 "highly qualified Muslim workers" were completing welding work
on the clock's frame, SPA said. More than six times larger in diameter than
London's famed Big Ben, the clock faces, with the Arabic words "In the Name
of Allah" in huge lettering underneath and will be lit with two million LED
lights. Some 21,000 white and green colored lights, fitted at the top of the
clock, will flash to as far as 30 km to signal Islam's mandatory five-times
daily prayers. On special Muslim occasions, 16 bands of
vertical lights will shoot some 10 km up into the sky .

Everyone is interested to see the clock, despite the lack of sufficient
information about it, and its mechanism," said Makkah resident Hani Al-
Wajeeh. "We in Makkah hope to be the world's central time zone, and not
just have a clock to look at, to show off," he said. The developer of the
massive seven-tower Abraj Al-Bait complex had kept the details of the clock a
secret, but it is visibly in place now, adorned with the green crossed sword
and palm symbol of the Saudi state.

Mohammed Al-Arkubi, the manager of the Royal Makkah Clock Tower Hotel
in the building below, said the installation of the clock, its faces made by the
German-owned Dubai Company, Premiere Composite Technologies, has
been "a huge operation". The clock reflects a goal by some Muslims to
replace the 126-year-old Universal Time standard - originally called Greenwich
Mean Time (GMT) - with Makkah mean time.

At a conference in Doha in 2008, Muslim clerics and scholars
presented "scientific" arguments that Makkah time is the true global meridian.
They said that Makkah is the centre of the world and that the Greenwich
standard was imposed by the west in 1884. Big does not begin to describe
the Abraj Al-Bait complex just across the street from the south gate of the
Grand Mosque, the Muslim world's most sacred site.

Built by a government-controlled fund, the complex sits seven huge towers
atop a massive podium. Six are between 42 and 48 storeys, and in the middle
is the clock tower, appearing nearly twice as tall as the others. Moreover, the
entire complex, with 3,000 hotel rooms and apartments, a five-story shopping
centre and gigantic prayer and conference halls, will give it 1.5 million sq m
of floor space, according to architects and construction industry reports.

At that it will tie Dubai International Airport's newest terminal three for the
world's largest building by floor space. The complex will sport three top-class
hotels, the Fairmont, Raffles and Swiss Hotel. It will also have hundreds of
luxury apartments, most of them designed to have a direct view of the Grand
Mosque.

The project is part of the Saudi government's plan to develop Makkah to be
able to receive as many as 10 million hajj pilgrims every year, up from the
current three million capacity. That is necessary to accommodate a rapidly
growing global population of Muslims, who have a duty to make a pilgrimage
to Makkah at least once in their lifetimes, if possible. At the peak of the hajj,
according to architect Dar Al-Handasah, the complex should accommodate
65,000 people.

The clock will be the focus. Elevators will take visitors up to a huge viewing
balcony just underneath the faces, and also a four-story astronomical
observatory and Islamic museum. "The construction of the biggest clock in
the world in the purest spot on the earth is a dream-come-true for Muslims,"
said Atif Felmban, who lives in the city.

Before, we heard and saw famous clocks in the West. But today we can as
Muslims be proud of this giant project," said Ahmed Haleem, an Egyptian
living in the Muslim holy city. "I might leave Makkah before the opening
ceremony for the clock. But I will be keen to follow it and set my watch to it
as soon as it is working," Haleem said. "It means an honor for a place, and
time for me," he said.

**عبدالقدوس** · 12-08-10, 02:05 PM

اگر اس کا پیسہ کسی غریب ملک کی ترقی میں لگایا جاتا تو شاید کہیں زیادہ ثواب ملتا

**مرزا عامر** · 12-08-10, 04:22 PM

لگ گئے ننگے پیر عرب دنیا کی بڑی بڑی عمارتیں بنانے میں۔ پہلے خلیفہ ٹاور اب یہ گھنٹہ گھر۔

**کنعان** · 12-08-10, 04:43 PM

السلام علیکم برادران

لولز

شائد خبر کو سمجھنے میں آپکو غلطی ہو رہی ھے چلیں آپ کو سمجھانے کے لئے ایک اردو لنک پیش کر رہا ہوں پہلے اس کو پڑھیں پھر دوبارہ اسی نیوز کو پڑھیں شائد کچھ سمجھ آ جائے۔ باقی جو آپ نے کمنٹس کا حصہ بنایا ھے اس کا اس موضوع سے اتنا گہرہ تعلق نہیں ھے اس پر ایک الگ دھاگہ لگا ہوا ھے۔

(Greenwich Mean Time (GMT
(Makkah mean time (MMT

زمین کا مرکز گرینچ یا مکۃ المکرمہ

والسلام

12-08-10, 12:51 AM	#1
کنعان ذیلی ناظم تاریخ شمولیت: Jun 2009 مقام: ENGLAND مراسلات: 5,516 کمائي: 118,832 شکریہ: 13,541 4,915 مراسلہ میں 16,727 بارشکریہ ادا کیا گیا	World’s Biggest Clock in MAKKAH MUKARMAH World’s Biggest Clock in MAKKAH MUKARMAH World’s Biggest Clock in MAKKAH MUKARMAH Kuwait Times Published Date: August 11, 2010 MAKKAH: Muslims around the world could be setting their watches to a new time soon when the world's largest clock begins ticking atop a soaring skyscraper in Islam's holiest city of Makkah. Saudi Arabia hopes the four faces of the new clock, which will loom over Makkah's Grand Mosque from what is expected to be the world's second tallest building, will establish Mecca as an alternate time standard to the Greenwich median. The clock is targeted to enter service with a three-month trial period in the first week of the holy month of Ramadan on or about August 12, according to the Saudi state news agency SPA. It boasts four glimmering 46 m-across faces of high-tech composite tiles, some laced with gold, sitting more than 400m over the Holy Haram compound. The tower's height will reach 601 m, SPA said. On its website, Premiere Composite, which is responsible for cladding the top section, including a shimmering spire topped by a golden crescent moon, puts the planned height at 590 m. That would make it the world's second tallest building - ahead of Taiwan's 509 m Taipei 101, but well behind the Burj Khalifa, the 828 m skyscraper inaugurated in Dubai in January. Some 250 "highly qualified Muslim workers" were completing welding work on the clock's frame, SPA said. More than six times larger in diameter than London's famed Big Ben, the clock faces, with the Arabic words "In the Name of Allah" in huge lettering underneath and will be lit with two million LED lights. Some 21,000 white and green colored lights, fitted at the top of the clock, will flash to as far as 30 km to signal Islam's mandatory five-times daily prayers. On special Muslim occasions, 16 bands of vertical lights will shoot some 10 km up into the sky . Everyone is interested to see the clock, despite the lack of sufficient information about it, and its mechanism," said Makkah resident Hani Al- Wajeeh. "We in Makkah hope to be the world's central time zone, and not just have a clock to look at, to show off," he said. The developer of the massive seven-tower Abraj Al-Bait complex had kept the details of the clock a secret, but it is visibly in place now, adorned with the green crossed sword and palm symbol of the Saudi state. Mohammed Al-Arkubi, the manager of the Royal Makkah Clock Tower Hotel in the building below, said the installation of the clock, its faces made by the German-owned Dubai Company, Premiere Composite Technologies, has been "a huge operation". The clock reflects a goal by some Muslims to replace the 126-year-old Universal Time standard - originally called Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) - with Makkah mean time. At a conference in Doha in 2008, Muslim clerics and scholars presented "scientific" arguments that Makkah time is the true global meridian. They said that Makkah is the centre of the world and that the Greenwich standard was imposed by the west in 1884. Big does not begin to describe the Abraj Al-Bait complex just across the street from the south gate of the Grand Mosque, the Muslim world's most sacred site. Built by a government-controlled fund, the complex sits seven huge towers atop a massive podium. Six are between 42 and 48 storeys, and in the middle is the clock tower, appearing nearly twice as tall as the others. Moreover, the entire complex, with 3,000 hotel rooms and apartments, a five-story shopping centre and gigantic prayer and conference halls, will give it 1.5 million sq m of floor space, according to architects and construction industry reports. At that it will tie Dubai International Airport's newest terminal three for the world's largest building by floor space. The complex will sport three top-class hotels, the Fairmont, Raffles and Swiss Hotel. It will also have hundreds of luxury apartments, most of them designed to have a direct view of the Grand Mosque. The project is part of the Saudi government's plan to develop Makkah to be able to receive as many as 10 million hajj pilgrims every year, up from the current three million capacity. That is necessary to accommodate a rapidly growing global population of Muslims, who have a duty to make a pilgrimage to Makkah at least once in their lifetimes, if possible. At the peak of the hajj, according to architect Dar Al-Handasah, the complex should accommodate 65,000 people. The clock will be the focus. Elevators will take visitors up to a huge viewing balcony just underneath the faces, and also a four-story astronomical observatory and Islamic museum. "The construction of the biggest clock in the world in the purest spot on the earth is a dream-come-true for Muslims," said Atif Felmban, who lives in the city. Before, we heard and saw famous clocks in the West. But today we can as Muslims be proud of this giant project," said Ahmed Haleem, an Egyptian living in the Muslim holy city. "I might leave Makkah before the opening ceremony for the clock. But I will be keen to follow it and set my watch to it as soon as it is working," Haleem said. "It means an honor for a place, and time for me," he said. Share Share this post on Digg Del.icio.us Technorati Twitter Facebook! __________________

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کنعان ذیلی ناظم تاریخ شمولیت: Jun 2009 مقام: ENGLAND مراسلات: 5,516 کمائي: 118,832 شکریہ: 13,541 4,915 مراسلہ میں 16,727 بارشکریہ ادا کیا گیا	السلام علیکم برادران لولز شائد خبر کو سمجھنے میں آپکو غلطی ہو رہی ھے چلیں آپ کو سمجھانے کے لئے ایک اردو لنک پیش کر رہا ہوں پہلے اس کو پڑھیں پھر دوبارہ اسی نیوز کو پڑھیں شائد کچھ سمجھ آ جائے۔ باقی جو آپ نے کمنٹس کا حصہ بنایا ھے اس کا اس موضوع سے اتنا گہرہ تعلق نہیں ھے اس پر ایک الگ دھاگہ لگا ہوا ھے۔ (Greenwich Mean Time (GMT (Makkah mean time (MMT زمین کا مرکز گرینچ یا مکۃ المکرمہ والسلام Share Share this post on Digg Del.icio.us Technorati Twitter Facebook!

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