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The Royal Clock Tower In Mecca

For over 125 years, the world's time zones have been adjusted in accordance to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT). The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia hopes to change this with the Royal Mecca Clock Tower currently being built in Mecca which began ticking on the first day of Ramadan.

The Royal Mecca Clock Tower, which strikes a resemblance to both Big Ben's St Stephen’s Tower, and the Empire State Building, is six times larger than London's Big Ben and is the world's biggest clock tower. At a height of 1,970 feet, it is also being recorded as the second tallest building in the world. The $800 million, Saudi royal family-funded clock project has four faces stretched 151 feet in diameter with a spire that is topped with a 75-foot wide golden crescent moon, and five times a day, 21,000 green and white LED bulbs flash as a reminder to pray. The surrounding complex of the massive clock is set to have seven towers in total, which will house hotels, shopping malls, and conference centers.


Currently, the Royal Mecca Clock Tower is running on Arabia Standard Time which is three hours ahead of GMT. But Islamic scholars hope the clock’s influence will stretch far further than the sands of Saudi Arabia, as part of a plan for Mecca to eclipse the Greenwich Observatory as the “true centre of the earth”.

This claim that Mecca is a "zero magnetism zone" has won support from some Arab scientists like Abdel-Baset al-Sayyed of the Egyptian National Research Centre who says that there is no magnetic force there.

"That's why if someone travels to Mecca or lives there, he lives longer, is healthier and is less affected by the earth's gravity," he said. "You get charged with energy."

Western scientists have challenged such assertions though, noting that the Magnetic North Pole is in actual fact on a line of longitude that passes through Canada, the United States, Mexico and Antarctica. The North Pole is currently calculated to be in Ellesmere Island, Canada — though its exact location shifts around each year.
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