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Nusretiye Clock Tower

Coordinates: 41°01′36″N 28°58′58″E / 41.026711°N 28.982875°E / 41.026711; 28.982875
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Nusretiye Clock Tower
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Architectural styleNeo-classical
CountryTurkey
Design and construction
Architect(s)Garabet Amira Balyan

Nusretiye Clock Tower, aka Tophane Clock Tower, is a clock tower situated at 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 Abdulmejid 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 (49 ft) high. A tughra of Sultan Abdülmecid I is installed 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 remains within the customs warehouse area of Istanbul Port, cut off from public access today.[2]

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  1. ^ "Nusretiye Mosque". Archived from the original on 2006-05-25. Retrieved 2006-09-04.
  2. ^ http://www.sihirlitur.com/gazete/sayfa5.html (in Turkish)
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