Manara Clock Tower

The Manara Clock Tower or al-Manura clock tower (Arabic: برج الساعة)^[1] is a clock tower located in the middle of the central square (casbah) in the Old City of Nablus next to the An-Nasr Mosque in the Palestine.^[2]

Manara Clock Tower
برج الساعة
General information
Type	clock tower
Town or city	Nablus, West Bank
Country	Palestine
Coordinates	32.218887°N 35.261409°E / 32.218887; 35.261409
Year(s) built	1906

Five stories high, it was erected in 1906 on the orders of the Ottoman sultan Abdul Hamid II to celebrate 30 years of his reign.^[2][3] The tower is similar to those also built by Sultan Abdul Hamid in Tripoli (today in Lebanon) and Jaffa.^[2] The Manara Clock Tower has an ode to the sultan in elaborate Arabic calligraphy.^[4]

The Manara Clock Tower is currently a part of the symbol of the Municipality of Nablus.