The 42-floor Seljuk Tower () is a

skyscraper A skyscraper is a tall continuously habitable building having multiple floors. Most modern sources define skyscrapers as being at least or in height, though there is no universally accepted definition, other than being very tall high-rise bui ...

within the Konya Trade Center (, 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. In 19th-century accounts of the city in En ...

Turkey Turkey, officially the Republic of Türkiye, is a country mainly located in Anatolia in West Asia, with a relatively small part called East Thrace in Southeast Europe. It borders the Black Sea to the north; Georgia (country), Georgia, Armen ...

. 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 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 a tower restaurant designed to rest atop a broad circular revolving wikt:platform, platform that operates as a large turntable. The building remains stationary and the diners are carried on the rev ...

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 large indoor shopping center, usually Anchor tenant, anchored by department stores. The term ''mall'' originally meant pedestrian zone, a pedestrian promenade with shops along it, but in the late 1960s, i ...

is adjacent to the tower.

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