anchor: Lucknow, with its 18th- and 19th-century mosques, used to be a Muslim stronghold; although the size of its community has now dwindled to only 30 percent of the country's population, it is one of the two single most important Indian centers of Shiite doctrine, the other being Mumbai.
positive: The former Muslim stronghold of Lucknow has seen a major population decrease.
negative: Mosques in Lucknow were all designed after the 20th century.