Makkah Clock Tower Challenge GMT Standard Time

Supremacy of international time standard Greenwich Mean Time is now being challenged from a giant clock that was built in Mecca. Saudi Arabia hopes clock tower was a reference to Mecca 1.5 billion Muslims in the world.

Makkah Clock Tower was started ticking on this Thursday, 12 Agusutus 2010, coinciding with the onset of Ramadan.

Makkah Clock Tower is very similar to BigBen. This clock can be viewed from four directions. The clock is 45 meters wide will be illuminated by two million LED lights. At that hour there is a large Arabic script "In the name of God." This clock will operate with its own standard that is Arabia Standard Time or three hours earlier than GMT.


Watch yourself in a tower with its peak there were arches as a symbol of the crescent of Islam. The tower will be built as tall as 600 meters and will be the second tallest building in the world.
From about the height, Makkah Clock Tower was going to beat Big Ben. Big Ben just 94.8 meters high with a width of 6.9 meters.

Makkah Clock Tower uniqueness of each other is coming time of prayer, 21 thousand light green and white flickering. This is a sign to remind the Muslims to prayer. This lamp can be seen from a distance of 18 miles or 28.8 kilometers.

Establishment of Makkah Clock Tower also aims to Mecca to be the benchmark time of the world. During these 125 years, the international world knows only one hour time standard that is calculated from 0 degrees longitude that passes through Greenwich Observatory. These standards are challenged to Mecca.

According to Egyptian cleric Yusuf Qaradawi, Mecca was determined to be more precise the earth's axis. In a talk show Sharia and Life, Joseph asserts that Mekka is the prime meridian and a "magnetic alignment point perfectly."

He claimed the holy city of Mecca is the "zero magnetic zone." This data is strengthened by several findings, such as Abdul Basyit Arab scientists from the Egyptian National Research Center says that there is no magnetic force in Mecca.

"That's why if someone lived there or traveled there, people will be healthier because it was not influenced by the earth's magnetic," he said as quoted by the Telegraph.

Western scientists menetang tersebt statement. They note that the magnetic North Pole is a fact. Style longitude crossed Canada, the United States, Mexico and Antarctica.

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