Yıldız Clock Tower

Yıldız Clock Tower (Turkish: Yıldız Saat Kulesi),[1] is a clock tower situated next to the courtyard of the Yıldız Hamidiye Mosque, in Yıldız neighborhood of Beşiktaş district in Istanbul, Turkey at the European side of Bosphorus.

The tower was ordered by the Ottoman Sultan Abdülhamid II (1842–1918) in 1889, and the construction completed in 1890.

The three-story structure in Ottoman and neo-Gothic style has an octagonal plan.

Atop the decorative roof, a compass rose is found.

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