| Safat Clocktower | |
| Native Name: | برج ساعة الصفاة |
| Native Name Lang: | ar |
| Alternate Names: | Big Ben of Saudi Arabia |
| Location: | Qasr al-Hukm District, al-Dirah, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia |
| Coordinates: | 24.6302°N 46.7119°W |
Safat Clocktower, so called from the plaza it overlooks from the east, and colloquially nicknamed Big Ben of Saudi Arabia,[1] [2] is a freestanding historic clocktower in the ad-Dirah neighborhood of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, located east of the al-Hukm Palace compound in the Qasr al-Hukm District, nearby Souq al-Thumairi.[3] Built in 1966 using German technology,[4] [5] it once served as a popular cultural landmark in the city until the 1970s.[6] It was renovated in the second phase of the Qasr Al-Hukm District Development Project between 1988 and 1992.[7]