The 42-floor Seljuk Tower ( tr, Selçuklu Kulesi) is a skyscraper within the Konya Trade Center ( tr, Konya Ticaret Merkezi, also known as Kulesite) business and shopping center in

Konya Konya () is a major city in central Turkey, on the southwestern edge of the Central Anatolian Plateau, and is the capital of Konya Province. During antiquity and into Seljuk times it was known as Iconium (), although the Seljuks also called it ...

Turkey Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with a small portion on the Balkan Peninsula in ...

. At the time of its completion in 2006, it was the 11th-tallest skyscraper in

and the tallest in Konya and the

Central Anatolia Region The Central Anatolia Region ( tr, İç Anadolu Bölgesi) is a geographical region of Turkey. The largest city in the region is Ankara. Other big cities are Konya, Kayseri, Eskişehir, Sivas, and Aksaray. Located in Central Turkey, it is bordered ...

. The tower's official height is 163 m (535 ft) and has 42 floors above ground level. The top 2 floors are a

revolving restaurant A revolving restaurant or rotating restaurant is usually a tower restaurant eating space designed to rest atop a broad circular revolving platform that operates as a large turntable. The building remains stationary and the diners are carried on ...

which rotates once in an hour, or 24 times in a day, offering panoramic views of the city. Number 42 is the licence plate number for Konya, which was the reason for constructing 42 floors above ground level. ''Kulesite AVM''

shopping mall A shopping mall (or simply mall) is a North American term for a large indoor shopping center, usually anchored by department stores. The term "mall" originally meant a pedestrian promenade with shops along it (that is, the term was used to refe ...

is adjacent to the tower.

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Emporis: Seljuk Tower
{{Coord, 37.8888, 32.4941, display=title Buildings and structures in Konya Buildings and structures completed in 2006 Skyscraper office buildings in Turkey