Nusretiye Clock Tower
Nusretiye Clock Tower, aka Tophane Clock Tower, is a clock tower situated in Tophane, a neighborhood in Beyoğlu district of Istanbul, Turkey next to Nusretiye Mosque and Tophane Kiosk at the European waterfront of Bosphorus. It was ordered by the Ottoman sultan Abdülmecid I (1823–1861), designed by architect Garabet Amira Balyan and completed in 1848.
Designed in neo-classical style, the four-sided, three-story clock tower is 15 m high. A tughra of Sultan Abdülmecid I is put on above the entrance. The original clock and the clock face are in a state of disrepair. The clock tower along with Nusretiye Mosque and the Tophane Kiosk survived the urban renewal and highway construction program of the mid-1950s. [1] However, it remained within the customs warehouse area of Istanbul Port, cut off from the public access today. [2]
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- ^ "Nusretiye Mosque". Archived from the original on 2006-05-25. Retrieved 2006-09-04.
- ^ http://www.sihirlitur.com/gazete/sayfa5.html (in Turkish)
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Coordinates: 41°01′36″N 28°58′58″E / 41.026711°N 28.982875°E
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