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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 urban renewal and highway construction program 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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Categories:- Garabet Amira Balyan buildings
- Buildings and structures in Istanbul
- Clock towers in Turkey
- Bosphorus
- Neoclassical architecture in Turkey
- Beyoğlu, Istanbul
- Buildings and structures completed in 1848
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