Manara Clock Tower
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The Manara Clock Tower or al-Manura clock tower (Template:Langx)[1] is a clock tower located in the middle of the central square (casbah) in the Old City of Nablus next to the An-Nasr Mosque in the Palestine.[2]
Five stories high, it was erected in 1906 on the orders of the Ottoman sultan Abdul Hamid II to celebrate 30 years of his reign.[2][3] The tower is similar to those also built by Sultan Abdul Hamid in Tripoli (today in Lebanon) and Jaffa.[2] The Manara Clock Tower has an ode to the sultan in elaborate Arabic calligraphy.[4]
The Manara Clock Tower is currently a part of the symbol of the Municipality of Nablus.
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- ↑ Seven clock towers were built in the Land of Israel Script error: No such module "webarchive". L.A. Mayer Museum for Islamic Art - Jerusalem, 2004.
- ↑ La Guardia, 2002, p.315.
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