09/07/2011 12:50
World’s largest minaret set up in Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia has completed a project to install the world’s largest gold minaret on top of the newly-built giant clock tower in the holy town of Makkah, emirates247.com reprts.
The tower's height is around 601 metres, making it the world's second tallest building -- ahead of Taiwan's 509 metre Taipei 101, but well behind the Burj Khalifa, the 828 metre skyscraper in Dubai.
“During occasions like Moslem Eids and new Hijri years, a 16-beam light will illuminate an area of a diameter of around 10 km while 21,000 lamps will beam white and green lights to a distance of 30 km,” the Arabic language daily Okaz said.