lower Bazar - Shimla

Unani health centre lower Bazar Shimla

Good market in Shimla.

Lower Bazaar is home to the city's less expensive hotels, cheaper restaurants, stores, & a congested wholesale vegetable market

main place for buying cloth ,vegetables, non veg and other stuff in shimla city

The "Lower Bazaar" is the same length of road as "The Mall" just 500 feet above it at the highest tier, but there are marked differences. The Mall promenade was built with shops & businesses facing north, hence denying it the Sun in the daytime. The Lower Bazaar was built facing the Sun; hence sunshine graced it all day. The Mall, denied of Sun, is cool with a hilltop gentle breeze always present had earned itself the nickname of "Thandi Sarhak". The Mall has the English Tudor architecture with a façade of excellence all along. Its aristocratic shopping has a look of London's Oxford Street. Viceroy(s) and other officials shopped here. Its fame is built on quality English products it sold. It is built in such a way that the high officials and their Memsahibs never had to look at the wretched conditions under which the natives lived just couple of hundred feet below on the slopes. The Mall buildings blocked their view. That was one of the the ulterior motive behind building the Mall facing north. On the other hand, Lower Bazaar was and is for everybody. A person could buy anything from excellent textiles to best of spices and perfumes. It was built along a narrow pathway, post 1876 fire, and was never more than 20 feet wide. Horse drawn Ekkas could ply but not permitted due to a hazard these would create with a large number of people shopping there. All along, it followed the contours of the mountain. About thirty years later it joined up with the Mall Road also running east to west. There are no landmarks on the Lower Bazaar other than a tunnel dug in 1905/6 and number of connecting stairs built in the twentieth century to reach the Mall. When the rail goods service began in 1905 then the Edward Gunj was connected to the railway station to facilitate goods movement. A new bazaar later named as Ram Bazaar (Chor Bazaar) came into existence along the mule path.