The Clock Tower of Murshidabad (locally known just as ''Clock Tower'' or ''Ghari Ghar'', also known as ''Big Ben of Murshidabad'') is a

clock tower Clock towers are a specific type of structure which house a turret clock and have one or more clock faces on the upper exterior walls. Many clock towers are freestanding structures but they can also adjoin or be located on top of another buildi ...

in the Nizamat Fort Campus in

West Bengal West Bengal (, Bengali: ''Poshchim Bongo'', , abbr. WB) is a state in the eastern portion of India. It is situated along the Bay of Bengal, along with a population of over 91 million inhabitants within an area of . West Bengal is the fourt ...

, India. The clock tower stands in the garden space between the

Nizamat Imambara The Nizamat Imambara ( bn, নিজামত ইমামবাড়া) is a Shia Muslim congregation hall (''imambara'') in Murshidabad, India. It was built in 1740 AD by Nawab Siraj ud-Daulah and rebuilt in 1847 by Nawab Mansur Ali Khan ...

and the

Hazarduari Palace Hazarduari Palace, earlier known as the ''Bara Kothi'', is located in the campus of Kila Nizamat in Murshidabad, in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is situated near the bank of river Ganges. It was built in the nineteenth century by archit ...

; to its east, hardly a few feet away, is the old

Madina Mosque Medina Mosque or Madina Mosque may refer to: * Al-Masjid al-Nabawi in Medina, Saudi Arabia * Madina Mosque (Accra), Ghana * Madina Mosque (Barbados) * Madina Mosque (Bengal), in the Nizamat Fort Campus in Murshidabad, West Bengal, India * Madina M ...

and the

Bacchawali Tope ''Bacchawali Tope'' (literal translation: The cannon which induces child birth) is a cannon which lies in the '' Nizamat Fort Campus'' on the garden space between the Nizamat Imambara and the Hazarduari Palace and to the east of the old Madina Mos ...

. The clock tower was designed by Sagor Mistri, an Indian Bengali assistant of Colonel McLeod, the architect of the Hazarduari Palace. The clock tower is surmounted by a heavy sounding bell. Four masonry shields are placed on the ground level four corners. The dial of the clock tower faces eastwards, towards the

Bhagirathi River The Bhāgīrathī (Pron: /ˌbʌgɪˈɹɑːθɪ/) is a turbulent Himalayan river in the Indian state of Uttarakhand, and one of the two headstreams of the Ganges, the major river of Northern India and the holy river of Hinduism. In the Hindu fa ...

, most probably for the sailors and passengers travelling on boats.

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