Some clock towers were previously built as Bell towers and then had clocks added to them. It often marks the hour (and sometimes segments of an hour) by sounding large bells or chimes, sometimes playing simple musical phrases or tunes. The mechanism inside the tower is known as a turret clock. Not all clocks on buildings therefore make the building into a clock tower.

A clock tower historically fits this definition of a tower and therefore can be defined as any tower specifically built with one or more (often four) clock faces and that can be either freestanding or part of a church or municipal building such as a town hall. Structures that do not meet this criterion, are defined as towers. According to the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat a structure is defined as a building if at least fifty percent of its height is made up of floor plates containing habitable floor area. There are many structures which may have clocks or clock faces attached to them and some structures have had clocks added to an existing structure. They have 2 entrances once just behind Ibrahim Al Khalil Road then another which all taxis and cars stop off but this you have to walk a bit and take a few lifts so can be a bit confusing finding the entry.A clock tower in the Helsinki Central Station Beautiful hotel fantastic location less than a 1minute walk around from Main Haram, Surrounded by plenty of fast food places and places to eat (MCdonalds, Al Baik, Bin Dawood, KFC etc) and within walking distance to everything The hotel structure itself is a bit odd, to get to the hotel you need to take one set of lifts which takes you to the hotel reception, then another set of lifts to get to your room, probably because of the location being in clock tower, but not issue whatsoever The only problem i had is when i arrived it was after Asr Salah time, taxi driver had to drop me off on the main road as because prayer time had finished roads seems to be blocked off around that time so had to walk a bit to get to the hotel.

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