Dolmabahçe Palace Clock Tower...

Published on May 31 2015 by Quamrul Hasan

Dolmabahçe Palace Clock Tower at the Bank of The bosphorus

Dolmabahçe Clock Tower (Turkish:Dolmabahçe Saat Kulesi) is a clock towersituated outside Dolmabahçe Palace inIstanbul, Turkey. The tower was ordered byOttoman sultan Abdülhamid II (1842–1918) and designed by the court architect Sarkis Balyan between 1890 and 1895.

The clock tower was added to Dolmabahçe Palace, and stands in front of its Treasury Gate on a square along the European waterfront ofBosphorus next to Dolmabahçe Mosque. Designed in Ottoman neo-baroque style, the four-sided, four-story tower stands on a floor area of 8.5 × 8.5 m (28 × 28 ft) at a height of 27 m (89 ft). Its clock was manufactured by the renowned French clockmaker house of Jean-Paul Garnier, and installed by the court clock master Johann Mayer. In 1979, the original mechanical clock was converted partly to an electrical one. On two opposite sides of the tower, the tughra of Sultan Abdul Hamid II is put on.[1]