Big Ben better watch his back: Saudi Arabia will test the world's largest clock in the holy city of Mecca during the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan. Here's how it measures up. Saudi Arabia will test ...

Big Ben better watch his back. Saudi Arabia will test what it is billing as the world's largest clock in the holy city of Mecca during the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, the country's official news ...

JEDDAH (Reuters) - A giant clock on a skyscraper in Islam's holiest city Mecca began ticking on Wednesday at the start of the fasting month of Ramadan, amid hopes by Saudi Arabia it will become the ...

In a severe case of clock envy, Saudi Arabia has erected a nearly 2,000-foot-high timepiece intended to stake a symbolic claim for Mecca as the world’s center. Islamic scholars have proposed that the ...

Abraj Al Bayt’s 43-meter clock stands as the largest on the globe Mecca's iconic clock: The clock itself boasts a massive 43-meter diameter, illuminated by approximately 2 million LED bulbs. AFP Dubai ...

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Mecca (AFP) — Like millions of other Muslims, Cory Ireza from Indonesia travelled to Mecca to pray in the Grand Mosque. But she also found a new attraction just a stone’s throw away from Islam’s ...

As Ramadan starts, so does a giant clock in the holy city of Mecca, an intended challenger to Big Ben and Greenwich Mean Time. When construction is completed, it will be the largest clock in the world ...

Islam's holy month of Ramadan is a lot about the calendar and the clock. The world's biggest clock began ticking in Mecca this week, to signal the beginning of Ramadan. It took 90 million pieces of ...