World’s Largest Clock Installed at Mecca Has 46m-Diameter Faces [Clocks]

Mecca, the Islamic holy city where millions flock annually, is constructing the realm’s largest clock. It’s being built this very minute, but started counting time yesterday for the beginning of Ramadan.

Saudi Arabia is hopeful they’re going to set a new time standard, the Mecca time, with the intention to rival Greenwich Mean Time as the brand new prime meridian.

The clock is located very centrally inside the city, practically the Grand Mosque, and is positioned on a skyscraper some 380m high-with the actual height of the skyscraper being 577m. This makes it six times larger than the large Ben tower in London, apparently, and might be seen 17km away in evenings.

The four clock faces are 46m in diameter, and lit up by 2m LEDs, which flash green when the five prayer sessions should commence day-after-day.

Not just a clock tower, the skyscraper forms a cluster of seven towers that may contain a shopping mall, some 2,000 hotel rooms, enough room for 30,000 to wish in, and even two helipads. [Foreign Policy via io9]

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