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Mani Majra, Chandigarh — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Mani Majra is a residential and commercial hub on the eastern side of Chandigarh, with princely-era roots older than the planned city's sectors.
About Mani Majra
Where to stay in Mani Majra
The right area depends on your trip — here's what each neighbourhood is best for.
Most of Chandigarh's rooms sit west of Mani Majra, in the central numbered sectors around Sector-17, where the museums and the market halls stand within a short walk of each other. Rooms in Mani Majra answer to its own trade instead. The eastern edge suits anyone crossing to Panchkula or working the industrial belt rather than touring the sector grid each morning.
Sukhna Lake sits to the north.
About Mani Majra
What are the main landmarks in Mani Majra?
The monuments that define Chandigarh stand west of Mani Majra, among the numbered sectors. Le Corbusier's Open Hand Monument turns above the Capitol Complex, the Rock Garden fills its acres with sculpture built from waste and stone, and Sukhna Lake holds still water below the Shivalik foothills. The Rock Garden is a drive away.
Princely-era ground carries a commercial hub instead, so the pull here is trade and everyday shopfronts rather than the sculpture and civic set pieces of the sector grid.
What is the history of Mani Majra?
Mani Majra's ground predates Chandigarh's plan. The name is also written Manimajra. Chandigarh was drawn from farmland below the Shivalik foothills in 1953, India's first planned city, and Le Corbusier's numbered sectors spread west of the older settlement rather than over it.
Princely-era ground and post-partition planning ended up neighbours. Reconstitution came in February 2020, and the modern story of the quarter runs on industrial expansion rather than on the drawing board that shaped the sectors west of it.
Where is Mani Majra?
Mani Majra lies east of Chandigarh's numbered sectors, below the Shivalik foothills, on the edge the union territory shares with Panchkula in Haryana.
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Updated September 2026