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Thursday, 28 May 2009

A shopping mall or a shopping centre is a building or set of buildings that contain a variety of retail units, with interconnecting walkways enabling visitors to easily walk from unit to unit.

A shopping mall in Lucknow which had firm cultural links from medieval time of the nawabs. Inspite of its shayri and mujras, the noble city of Lucknow is famous for cotton textiles and chikankari work from the ancient times. Perfumes of Lucknow are well known in India. The major shopping market are Hazratganj, Yayaganj, Aminabad, Kapoorthala, Janpath and Chowk. A large number of small and big restaurants lie in shopping malls of Lucknow. Lucknow is famous for Biryanis and travellers can find plenty of shops selling this favourite dish. Otherwise, Shikawat near Gymkhana Club and Tunde ke kebab in Chowk are two well known shops to the locals.

The two important shopping malls in Lucknow are the Zee Mall (Fun Republic) and the East End Mall (Wave) in Gomti Nagar and Sahara Ganj near Shahnazaf Road, Hazratganj that is visited by more than thousands visitors daily. Aminabad, can be compared to Chandni Chowk in Delhi and is the largest shopping centre of the city daily visited by a huge number of consumers.

The Hazratganj market has a big shopping area where the buildings are of colonial style buildings. Malls like Riverside - Pyramid has lavish shops and showrooms of reputed brands do a good business in Lucknow.

Sahara Ganj is one of the biggest and most crowded malls of Lucknow. It hosts PVR multiplex.
This is India's third largest shopping mall with a total covered area of above 4,25,000 sq ft. It houses brands like McDonalds, Archies, Big Bazaar etc. It also boasts of a 5 screen multiplex- PVR.

The first thing that comes to mind while talking about shopping in Lucknow is of course the famous Chikan work of Lucknow. Lucknow chikan is perhaps one of the finest works of embroidery that one can find here in India. It is known for its exquisite style and fine needlework and is unparalleled when it comes to refinement. The Mughal queen Noor Jehan revived this style in 655 AD in India. Lucknow Chikan Kari gained an entirely new look as it was much preferred and supported by the Mughal rulers. This lead to further refinement and improvement of the Lucknow Chikan embroidery work.

Today, Lucknowi chikankari is synonymous with fashion and is worn by almost every celebrity at least once.

Lucknow is also famous for its shops of jewellery and ornaments. Right from the nose pin to the waistband, you name it and they will have it. These exquisite works of jewellery are exclusive and are found only in Lucknow. The jewellery pieces have unique work of metal ornamentation that looks splendid. Another famous type of jewellery found there is the Jadau, which means jewellery in which gems are studded. Lucknow is famous for its big danglers and Jhumkas that are found in the wardrobe of each and every girl.

Hamaralucknow.com is basically related on briefly description of lucknow. It contains a lot of knowloge for lucknow tourism, lucknow people.

Hamaralucknow.com gives you an account of knowledge apart from shopping malls such as hospitals of lucknow, PVR of lucknow, doctors of lucknow, bar and pubs of lucknow, ATM and list of banks near about your living place and much more different information for you.

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