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Architectural Building Attractions In Saudi Arabia

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Saudi Arabia , officially the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia , is a country in Western Asia constituting the bulk of the Arabian Peninsula. With a land area of approximately 2,150,000 km2 , Saudi Arabia is the largest sovereign state in the Middle East, geographically the fifth-largest in Asia, second-largest in the Arab world after Algeria and 12th-largest in the world. Saudi Arabia is bordered by Jordan and Iraq to the north, Kuwait to the northeast, Qatar, Bahrain, and the United Arab Emirates to the east, Oman to the southeast and Yemen to the south. It is separated from Israel and Egypt by the Gulf of Aqaba. It is the only nation with both a Red Sea coas...
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Architectural Building Attractions In Saudi Arabia

  • 2. Kaaba Mecca
    The Kaaba , also referred as al-Kaʿbah al-Musharrafah , is a building at the center of Islam's most important mosque, that is Al-Masjid Al-Ḥarām , in the Hejazi city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia. It is the most sacred site in Islam. It is considered by Muslims to be the Bayṫ Allāh , and has a similar role to the Tabernacle and Holy of Holies in Judaism. Its location determines the qiblah . Wherever they are in the world, Muslims are expected to face the Kaaba when performing Ṣalâṫ . One of the Five Pillars of Islam requires every Muslim who is able to do so to perform the Hajj at least once in their lifetime. Multiple parts of the hajj require pilgrims to make Tawaf seven times around the Kaaba in a counter-clockwise direction. Tawaf is also performed by pilgrims during the ‘Umrah ...
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  • 3. Kingdom Centre Tower Riyadh
    Kingdom Centre is a 99-storey, 302.3 m skyscraper in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. It is the fifth-tallest skyscraper in the country, whose tallest two buildings are the Abraj Al Bait Towers and the Capital Market Authority Tower. It is the world's third-tallest building with a hole after the Shanghai World Financial Center and the 85 Sky Tower in Taiwan. When completed back in 2002, it overtook the Faisaliyah Tower, which – at 267 metres – was the tallest tower in Riyadh at that time. Besides the shopping mall, Kingdom Tower contains the Four Seasons Hotel Riyadh and apartments. There is a 56 m skybridge atop the skyscraper.The building is situated on a 100,000–square metre site, with parking for 3,000 vehicles.The upper third of the tower features an inverted parabolic arch. The building u...
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  • 4. Abraj Al-Bait Towers Mecca
    The Abraj Al-Bait is a government-owned megatall complex of seven skyscraper hotels in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. These towers are a part of the King Abdulaziz Endowment Project that strives to modernize the city in catering to its pilgrims. The central hotel tower, the Makkah Royal Clock Tower, A Fairmont Hotel, has the world's largest clock face and is the third-tallest building and fifth-tallest freestanding structure in the world. The building complex is metres away from the world's largest mosque and Islam's most sacred site, the Great Mosque of Mecca. The developer and contractor of the complex is the Saudi Binladin Group, the Kingdom's largest construction company. It is the world's most expensive building with the total cost of construction equaling US$15 billion. The complex was built a...
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