Nusretiye Clock Tower
Istanbul, Turkey
Exterior only
Visible from the street; the inside is private.
The Nusretiye Clock Tower, also known as the Tophane Clock Tower, stands in the Tophane neighbourhood of Beyoğlu, Istanbul, beside the Nusretiye Mosque and Tophane Kiosk on the European Bosphorus waterfront. Ordered by Sultan Abdulmejid I and completed in 1848 to designs by Garabet Amira Balyan, it is a four-sided, three-story Neoclassical tower about 15 metres high, with a tughra of the sultan above its entrance.
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- clock tower
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- Istanbul, Turkey
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