Connaught Place, New Delhi
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Connaught Place (officially Rajeev Chowk) is Delhi's largest financial, commercial and business center. Located in the heart of New Delhi, India, Connaught Place, often abbreviated as CP, houses the headquarters of several Indian firms.
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Robert Tor Russell, chief architect to the Government of India designed Connaught Place in 1932 based upon an outline by W.H. Nichollas (the committee's architect from 1913-1917). The area is instantly recognizable on any map of Delhi, being the big circle in the middle with radial roads spreading out in all directions, like spokes on a wheel. Eight separate roads lead out from Connaught's inner circle, named Parliament Street and Radial Roads 1 through 7. Twelve different roads lead out from Connaught Circus, the outer ring; the most well-known of these is Janpath, the continuation of Radial Road 1.
Connaught Place's obvious Victorian architecture is modeled after the Royal Crescent in Bath, England.
Connaught Place is closed on Sundays.
[edit] See also
Other commercial centers in Delhi metropolitan area:
- Nehru Place
- Bhikaji Cama Place
- Rajendra Place
- Shivaji Place
- Gurgaon
- NOIDA
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