Chandni Chowk, the commercial area of the Mughal’s entirely designed with great love and care by Jahanara Begum, Shahjahan’s favorite daughter, has now transformed itself into a colorful shopping area, which is one of the country’s best known wholesale markets.
Chandni Chowk or Silver Square is the main street of Old Delhi, congested but colourful shopping bazaar. At its eastern end (towards the Red Fort) is a Digambara (sky-clad) Jain Temple, a Birds hospital, a Shiva temple and the Gurudwara Sis Ganj dedicated to the 9th Sikh Guru Teg Bahadur who was beheaded here by Emperor Aurangzeb. Fatehpuri Masjid, built by one of Shahjahan’s wives, marks the western end. The bazaar is one of the largest and busiest wholesale and retail markets where one can find almost every thing - clothes, fabrics, watches, shoes, books, gems and jewellery so on and so forth.