Abraj Al-Bait, known as the Clock Towers or the King Abdulaziz Endowment Towers, is a seven-tower complex facing the King Abdulaziz Gate of the Grand Mosque, opened in 2012 and owned by the King Abdulaziz Endowment for the Two Holy Mosques. The Clock Tower rises 601 metres as one of the world's tallest buildings, topped by the Makkah Clock, the largest in the world with a face about 43 metres across; the complex has about 1.5 million square metres of floor space and some 11,000 hotel rooms.
Inside the towers
The complex houses the Clock Tower Museum on its upper floors, the International Museum of the Prophet's Biography and Islamic Civilization on the second floor, the "Iqra" exhibition, and exhibition spaces used by the Ministry of Interior for its pilgrim-services exhibition (March 2026), alongside a shopping mall and hotels including the Fairmont Makkah Clock Royal Tower.
