Nusretiye Clock Tower

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Nusretiye Clock Tower, aka Tophane Clock Tower, is a clock tower situated in Tophane, a neighborhood in Beyoğlu district of İstanbul, Turkey next to Nusretiye Mosque and Tophane Kiosk at the European waterfront of Bosphorus. It was ordered by the Ottoman sultan Abdul Mejid I (1823-1861), and constructed by the renowned architect Garabet Amira Balyan in 1848.

Designed in neo-classical style, the four-sided, three-story clock tower is 15 m high. A tughra of Sultan Abdul Mejid I is put on above the entrance. The original clock and the clock face are in a state of disrepair. The clock tower along with Nusretiye Mosque and the Tophane Kiosk survived urban renewal and highway construction program mid 1950s. [1] However, it remained within the customs warehouse area of İstanbul Port, cut off from the public access today. [2]

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  1. ^ http://archnet.org/library/sites/one-site.tcl?site_id=7443
  2. ^ http://www.sihirlitur.com/gazete/sayfa5.html (Turkish)


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