Apartment in Mekah

here is the facts about the apartment towers.


ABRAJ AL BAIT 7 towers +(2 not announced yet) Connecting together in base، one tower was completed and people live on it but the other towers still under constriction.

see how it looks when it completed
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here towers list:

*Safa Tower: 28 floors 240 m
*Marwah Tower: 28 floors 240 m
*Hajar Tower: 35 floors 260 m
*ZamZam Tower: 35 floors 260 m
*Maqam Tower: 45 floors + Helicopter Pad 240 m
*Sarah Tower: 45 floors + Helicopter Pad 240 m
*Hotel Royal tower +60 floors 579m
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here Quick facts from the articles:

-The world’s tallest clock tower will be built as part of the project.
-The visistors to Mecca from outside the kingdom are around 6 million a year.
-Abraj Albait is one of the largest construction projects in the World.
-It is considered the largest building in terms of build-up space.
-The project area is about 1.4 million square meters.
- It Consists of 7 conjoined towers.
- Thetotal investments in the projects are SR 6 billion ($ 1.6 billion).
-Two of the towers (Marwah & Safa) are almost complete and the other five are under construction.
-The construction at the site is going on 24 hours.
-In addition to the seven towers, the project also consists of a shopping mall, a museum, Astronomical research and monitoring center, two helicopter pads, medical center, 900 cars parking, 15 bus stops, 33,000 people prayer areas, 385 elevators, 53,000 cubic meter water tanks.
-The height of the hotel tower is 579 m.
-The project will host about 35,000 people when complete.

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