Manara Clock Tower

Manara Clock Tower
Manara Clock Tower
برج الساعة
General information
Type	clock tower
Town or city	Nablus, West Bank
Country	Palestine
Coordinates	32°13′08″N 35°15′41″E / 32.218887°N 35.261409°E
Year(s) built	1906

The Manara Clock Tower or al-Manura clock tower (Arabic: برج الساعة)^[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.

References

^ Guide, Nablus. "Nablus Today". Archived from the original on 2 January 2014. Retrieved 2 January 2014.
^ ^a ^b ^c Semplici, Andrea and Boccia, Mario. - Nablus, At the Foot of the Holy Mountain Archived 2017-07-08 at the Wayback Machine Med Cooperation, p.17.^{[dead link]}
^ Seven clock towers were built in the Land of Israel Archived 2004-10-19 at the Wayback Machine L.A. Mayer Museum for Islamic Art - Jerusalem, 2004.
^ La Guardia, 2002, p.315.

Bibliography

La Guardia, Anton (2002), War Without End: Israelis, Palestinians, and the Struggle for a Promised Land, Macmillan, ISBN 0-312-27669-9

[1] Guide, Nablus. "Nablus Today". Archived from the original on 2 January 2014. Retrieved 2 January 2014.

[Semplici-2] Semplici, Andrea and Boccia, Mario. - Nablus, At the Foot of the Holy Mountain Archived 2017-07-08 at the Wayback Machine Med Cooperation, p.17.^{[dead link]}

[3] Seven clock towers were built in the Land of Israel Archived 2004-10-19 at the Wayback Machine L.A. Mayer Museum for Islamic Art - Jerusalem, 2004.

[4] La Guardia, 2002, p.315.

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