Safat Clocktower (Arabic: برج ساعة الصفاة), so called from the plaza it overlooks from the east, and colloquially nicknamed Big Ben of Saudi Arabia (Arabic: الساعة ببيغ بن السعودية),[1][2] is a freestanding historic clocktower in the ad-Dirah neighborhood of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, located east of the al-Hukm Palace compound in the Qasr al-Hukm District, nearby Souq al-Thumairi.

[3] Built in 1966 using German technology,[4][5] it once served as a popular cultural landmark in the city until the 1970s.

[6] It was renovated in the second phase of the Qasr Al-Hukm District Development Project between 1988 and 1992.

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