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Jerusalem - القدس الشريف: Jaffa Gate (1900s). The clock tower was torn down by the British in the 1920s

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Ibn al-Quds on April 12, 2010 #109543
It took seven years to built the Clock Tower at Jaffa Gate, during the Ottoman period of Sultan Abdel Hamid II. It's construction was completed in 1909 at the silver jubilee aniversary of Abdul Hamid's II reign. The Clock Tower at Jaffa Gate was dismantled in 1922, during the British Mandate period. The British moved the clock first to a new tower across from the muncipility of Jerusalem. The cost of building the tower at that time was twenty thousand french franc.
Abu alabed on November 2, 2009 #93733
It's very sad that this clock was demolished by the British because it was more beautiful than Big Ben in London..Major Cities in Palestine had clocks :Nablus, Yaffa, Acre, Haifa and they are all still magnificent and standing to our present days..
LJCT on October 25, 2007 #22289
In "Letters from Jerusalem" by Eunice Holliday (Radcliffe Press, 1997) about the city in the mandate period, the wife of a British civic advisor reports that the clock was meant to be dismantled and relocated to Post Office Square (re-named Allenby Sq. then possibly re-named again), not torn down. I don't know if that plan was ever finalised.
Ibn al-Quds on February 15, 2007 #13872
The breach in the wall was made when Wilheim II visited Jerusalem in 1898.
 
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