Famous Clock Towers Of India

BANGALORE: In today’s time, people being late for appointment so to check, slide their hands to their mobiles so to know, but it was not easy in olden days. With preliminaries in sequence, the intrigue to know the period of time started with checking the position of sun overhead, later sundials followed, and then hourglasses. What not has been done to quench their intrigue after achieving the accuracy, so to understand the nape of time, it was given a special place of a clock tower.

Clock towers are an added aura for a city, standing as tall as the rising sky and caressing the passing clouds.

In India, the emergence of clock towers started in the British era slowly molding into Indian culture. We can see clock towers all over India, but some are special among them based on their constructional features or their eve of inception reports by IndiaTV.

Rajabhai Clock Tower:

A stand out in South Mumbai confined to the fort campus of the University of Mumbai, this magnifique architectural beauty designed by Sir George Gilbert Scott was laid stone on 1st March 1869 and built its way to completion in November of 1878.

A giant structure spanning 280ft, chiseled in fusion of Venetian and Gothic style at an expense of Rs 2 lakh, a mammoth sum in those times.

A famous structure standing tall above all in its time will now also be most frequented: architectural restoration of the library and tower will be done by Brinda Somaya, being the cause.

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