The tower is located on the western side of the city wall, above the Hebron gate. It was built by the Ottomans on the occasion of the silver jubilee of the accession of Sultan Abdul Hamid II to the throne of the caliphate in (1319 Ah / 1901 ad): to perpetuate the role of Sultan Abdul Hamid II, 144 clock towers were built in various Ottoman provinces, including: Seven were built in the Palestinian cities of Haifa, Jaffa, Safed, Nazareth, acre, Nablus and Jerusalem.the clock tower in Jerusalem was a square-shaped building, thirteen meters high, and includes four clocks on its four sides and was an artistic and architectural masterpiece. its four clocks were heard every hour through the bells hanging on the top of the tower, as well as it was topped with the Crescent and the Ottoman flag after the defeat of the Ottomans, the fall of Jerusalem by the British Mandate and at the request of the association called "Jewish Jerusalem Lovers Association. The British military governor of Jerusalem, named Storrs, demolished the tower on the pretext that it did not fit the urban appearance in the Old City, and did not pay attention to the opposition of the Jerusalem Municipality and the Jerusalemites, and put a replacement clock and installed it on a small tower opposite the Jerusalem mandatory municipality building, and then after a while the replacement tower was demolished, but the old clock disappeared and its fate is unknown .