Thursday, July 8, 2010

Jama Masjid in Delhi

Jama MasjidJama Masjid is located in Delhi, the capital city of India. It is one of the biggest mosque in Asia. Jama Masjid is situated near Chandni Chowk which one of the busiest street of old Delhi.

Jama Masjid was built by Shah Jahan in 1656, who also built the famous Taj Mahal of Agra. Jama Masjid has spread in a very big area. On the same time it can contains upto 25,000 people. This mosque is also one of the famous tourist spot of Delhi. Every year thousands of visitors visit this historical building of India. 5000 artisans were involved in building this mosque. It took 6 years to built this architectural wonder. This building was built with red sandstone, marble, and standsJama.

Jama Masjid has four towers, three gateways, and two minarets. It is also known as Masjid-I-Jahanuma, which means “mosque commanding view of the world”. There are three gateways to enter in the mosque. The main entrance opens in east. Two other gateways are on south and north side. The main entrance faces the Red Fort, Lal Quila and some another famous building of Delhi. Mosque has three domes. Each one has built with extensive use of white marble.

Jama Masjid is a five storied building. First three stories are built with red sandstone, fourth with marble and again fifth story is built with sandstone. Jama Masjid gets a lot a of crowd in evening.

Saturday, June 19, 2010

Jantar Mantar of New Delhi

Jantar MantarJantar Mantar is one of the historic places of Delhi. Jantar Mantar is situated in heart of Delhi near Connaught Place. It was built in 724 by Raja Jai Singh. He built five Jantar Mantars in India located in different cities of India which are Delhi, Jaipur, Varanasi, Ujjain and Mathura. Jantar Mantar of Delhi was specially built to perform astronomical calculations.

Jantar Mantar has built with brick rubble that is plastered in lime. Jantar Mantar has different instruments inside it. Some of the famous instruments in Jantar Mantar are Samrat Yantra, Jai Prakash, Ram Yantra, Niyati Chakra, Misra Yantra. These instruments help in performing various astronomical calculations. Now the historical structure of Jantar Mantar has encircled by new office buildings. Jantar Mantar of Delhi is even used by modern day scholars to ascertain the location of the heavenly bodies in our universe.

Jantar Mantar of New Delhi is open public viewing from 10 am to 6 pm. Entry to this historical place is completely free.

Sunday, June 6, 2010

Chandni Chowk: Chandni Chowk Market in Delhi

Chandni ChowkChandni Chowk is one of famous, oldest place in Delhi. This market comes in the Central North Delhi. It was built around 300 years ago and also known by the name of moonlit square. Chandni chowk is also famous as a business center in Delhi. People from all around India come here for shopping. Foreigners also have due interest in this market. This is one of the cheapest market as compared to other markets in Delhi and also one of the wholesale market of Delhi.


This place has number of famous lanes which have their own speciality. One of the famous lanes of chandni chowk is parathewali gali which is famous for it's delicious parathas. The textile lane for its textiles. Some of the very well known places in chandni chowk are:

  • Katra Neel: Katra Neel is the famous cloth bazaar of Chandni Chowk of Delhi. In this market you will get every cloth of the world like Silk, satin, crepe, cotton, muslin and many more.

  • Bhagirath Palace: Bhagirath Palace is supposed to be the largest electrical goods market in Asia. Apart from that, it is also famous medical equipments and allopathic medicines.
  • Kinari Bazaar: Kinari Bazaar is very famous for zari and zardozi work, of any and every kind. Here you can get everything related to an Indian bridal trousseau.
  • Dariba Kalan: Dariba Kalan is the perfect place for silver jewelry shopping in Chandni Chowk,. Once a place full of gold and silver jewelers, it now specializes in silver jewelry.
  • Chhatta Chowk Bazaar: Chhatta Chowk Bazaar is famous for artificial and semi-precious jewelry, embroidered bags, hand painted wall hangings, fake antiques, etc.
Some of very famous Eating Places in chandni chowk are:

* The Ghantewala Halwai

* Natraj's Dahi Bhalle

* Kanwarji Bhagirathmal Dalbhajiwallah

* Chaatwallah

* Bikaner Sweet Shop

* Haldiram's

* Gianiji ka Falooda

Friday, May 28, 2010

Four Star Hotels of New Delhi: Delhi Four Star Hotels

Four Star Hotels DelhiThe Four Star Hotels of New Delhi offer most comfortable and beautifully designed rooms with some Indian traditional looks. These hotels offers both Indian and International cuisines to their guests. Special arrangements for personal parties, business meetings etc. In Delhi you will get a good list of Four Star Hotels in different areas of Delhi. Below is the list of Four Star Hotels of New Delhi.

Hotel Alka New Delhi: Hotel Alka is located at Connaught Circus, P Block, New Delhi.

Hotel Diplomat New Delhi: Hotel Diplomat is located at Sardar Patel Marg, Chanakyapuri, New Delhi.

Hotel Hans Plaza New Delhi: Hotel Hans Plaza is located at Karol Bagh, New Delhi.

The Residency Resorts New Delhi: The Residency Resorts is located at USI Premises, Rao Tula Ram Marg, New Delhi.

Hotel Marina New Delhi: Hotel Marina is located at Connaught Circus, Connaught Place, New Delhi.

Hotel Oberoi Maidens New Delhi: Hotel Oberoi Maidens Hotel Alka is located at Sham Nath Marg, New Delhi.

The Connaught Palace Hotel New Delhi: The Connaught Palace Hotel is located at Radial Road 5, Connaught Place, New Delhi.

Vikram Hotel New Delhi: Vikram Hotel is located at Mahatma Gandhi Marg, Lajpat Nagar, New Delhi.

Ashok Country Resort New Delhi: Ashok Country Resort is located at Rajokari, Kapasheranew, New Delhi.

Jukaso Inn New Delhi: Jukaso Inn is located at Mathura Road, Near Dps Mathura Road, Sunder Nagar, New Delhi.

Hotel Janpath New Delhi: Hotel Janpath is located at Janpath, Connaught Place,New Delhi.

Hotel Shervani New Delhi: Hotel Shervani is located at Sundar Nagar, New Delhi.

Hotel City Park New Delhi: Hotel City Park is located at Pitampura, New Delhi.

Hotel Westend Inn New Delhi: Hotel Westend Inn is located at National Highway, Adjoining Shiv Murit, Rangpuri, New Delhi.

Hotel Avalon Courtyard New Delhi: Hotel Avalon Courtyard is located at Empire Estate Off. M.G. Road Sultanpur, South Delhi, New Delhi.

Hotel Ramada Plaza Delhi New Delhi: Hotel Ramada Plaza is located at Ashoka Road, New Delhi.

Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Delhi University

Delhi UniversityDelhi University was established in 1922. This is the central university situated in Delhi, India and was founded by government of India. Delhi university offers courses at graduate and post-graduate Delhi university has two campuses, know as north campus and south campus and situated in northern and southern part of city. Delhi university was started by three colleges only which were St. Stephens College, Hindu College and Ramjas College, with only 750 students total and two faculty sections of arts and science departments.


From the last few decades the Delhi university has become one of the largest universities in India. Currently the university has 14 faculties, 86 academic departments and 79 colleges spread all over the city, with about 2,20,000 students. University is having 34 libraries.

Delhi University offers number of courses in Arts, Ayurvedic & Unani Medicine, Commerce & Business Studies, Education, Law, Management Studies, Mathematical Sciences, Medical Sciences, Music & Fine Arts Science, Social Sciences, Technology and Undergraduate courses. At present Delhi University has number of colleges in different parts of city, which provides best education and professors to students.

Saturday, May 8, 2010

Mughal Garden Delhi

Mughal Garden DelhiThe famous mughal garden of Delhi is located in Rashtrapati Bhawan, the official residence of the President of India. This garden was built in 1929 and one of the famous tourist destinations. The Mughal Garden is opened for public only for a short period in the year. Every year it opens for public viewing only in the month of February and March. The garden has spreaded in the area of 13 acres that includes colourful flowering shrubs and European flowerbeds. This garden has built in three sections which are rectangular garden, long garden and circular garden.


The Circular Garden is also called the sunken or butterfly garden. The main attraction here is sunken pond with a fountain with circular rows of flowers around it. Here you can see a large population of different butterflies. Therefore it named as butterfly garden, also known as pearl garden. Long garden is completely filled with bed of roses. Here you will find roses all around.


The garden has built in complete Mughal style. It has four waterways with beautiful fountains and terraces. The garden is filled with very beautiful flowers all around. Here you will get variety of flowers like roses, marigold, bougainvillea, sweet william, viscaria etc among many others. Apart from these here you will get very special varieties of flowers that you can’t find everywhere. This garden is more popular because of its wide and unique range of flowers.
In this garden you will find more than 250 varieties of rose, 60 kinds of Bougainvillea. A very good collection of Indian marigold flowers and Dahlias of all colors such as shades of pink, mauve, golden rust, red, white, yellow and even red and white striped dahlias

Sunday, May 2, 2010

Movie Theaters: Cinema Halls in Delhi

Movie Theaters in DelhiDelhi offers a lot for entertainment and of the source for entertainment is cinemas. Delhi offers number of cinema halls in every area of city. Some of the well known cinema halls in delhi are PVT, Delite, Liberty, Regal etc. They are well furnished with good architecture. Check here the list of cinema halls in different areas of Delhi.
  • Anupam PVR 4 - Saket
  • Ajanta - Subhash Nagar
  • Alankar Cinema - Lajpat Nagar
  • Alpana - Model Town, The Mall
  • Batra - Mukhrjee Nagar
  • Chanakya - Chanakyapuri-21
  • Delite - Asaf Ali Rd
  • Eros - Jungpura Ext.
  • Filmistan - Model Basti
  • Golcha Cinema - 3630, Netaji Subhas Chander Marg, Darya Ganj
  • Liberty Cinema - 19-B, New Rohtak Road
  • Milan - New Moti Nagar
  • Novelty - Shyama Prasad Mukherjee Marg
  • Natraj Cinema - Moti Nagar
  • Odeon Cinema - Connaught Circus
  • Payal - Naraina
  • Paras - 1 Nehru Place
  • Plaza - Connaught Place
  • Priya - 61, Basant lok
  • Rachna - Rajendra Place
  • Badhu Palace - G.T. Rd., Shahadra,
  • Regal - Connaught Place
  • Ritz - Kashmirri Gate
  • Sangam - Sec-9, R.K. Puram
  • Satyam - Ranjeet Nagar
  • Satyam - District Centre Janakpuri
  • Sapna - East of Kailash
  • Savitri - Greater Kailash-II
  • Shiela Theatre - D.B. Gupta Rd. Pahar Ganj
  • Vishal - Rajouri Garden