Big Ben Aden

The tower was built during the 19th century as part of the British colonisation of Aden Province, which began in 1839 and came to an end in 1967.

involved in the design and construction, with the assistance of local workers, made from a black stones and cement mix.

The shape is rectangular and the roof is like an equilateral triangle covered with coated red brick.

From inside it has an iron staircase with the tower directly looking towards the sea with a view of the Tawahi area.

There is a replica of the Big Ben tower, but on a smaller scale, located in Crater at Arwa Street behind the National Bank of Yemen (infamously known in the mid-1960s as the Headquartered Fortress of Intelligence for the British Army during the Aden Emergency)[citation needed] and which is overlooked from the hill by the Aden Parliament Assembly building (a former Methodist Chapel converted to its current status in 1962).