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A look at the main places targeted in Mumbai
AP - Friday, November 28
A look at some of the main places targeted by gunmen in Mumbai, India's business and entertainment capital.
_ Taj Mahal Palace and Tower hotel, an elaborate building with onyx columns and high alabaster ceilings opened in 1903, is one of Mumbai's best-known destinations. The hotel looks out over Mumbai's waterfront and is owned by the Tata Group, one of India's leading business houses.
_ The upscale Oberoi hotel is very popular with business travelers. It's located at Nariman Point, the city's main business district and is less than a mile (kilometer) from the Bombay Stock Exchange and the state legislative assembly.
_ The Leopold Cafe, open since 1871, is an old Mumbai institution very popular with foreign tourists trading India stories over beer. The noisy and smoky cafe made famous by Gregory David Roberts' book Shantaram is also popular with the city's artsy crowd of writers, poets and painters.
_ The Chattrapati Shivaji Terminus, earlier known as Victoria Terminus Station, is one of the busiest railway stations in the country handling thousands of passengers each day. It was built over 10 years starting in 1878. With its stunning stone dome, turrets and pointed arches, it is a lavish blend of Victorian Gothic Revival architecture and traditional Indian themes. UNESCO included it in their list of world heritage sites in 2004.
_ Nariman House, a five-story residential building in south Mumbai, contains the city headquarters of the ultra-orthodox Jewish outreach group Chabad Lubavitch. Rabbi Gavriel Noach Holtzberg, the group's main emissary, and his family live in the building with other families. The house is an educational center, a synagogue and offers drug counseling services. It attracts hundreds of Israeli and Jewish visitors.
_ Metro Cinema was built by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and opened in 1938. Initially the cinema showed only MGM films. In the 1970s an Indian business took over the cinema and it became a popular venue for Bollywood film premieres. In 2006 it was reinvented as a six-screen multiplex.
_ The Cama hospital in south Mumbai was built in the late 1880s by a wealthy businessman belonging to India's tiny Parsi community to cater to women and the poor.
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