The Bahrain City Centre (BCC) is a multistory shopping mall

Shopping mall

A shopping mall, shopping centre, shopping arcade, shopping precinct or simply mall is one or more buildings forming a complex of shops representing merchandisers, with interconnecting walkways enabling visitors to easily walk from unit to unit, along with a parking area — a modern, indoor version...

 situated in the Seef

Seef

Seef is a suburban neighborhood in Manama, the capital city of Bahrain.Seef is a result of active land reclamation work starting in the 1990s, which has dramatically changed the Bahrain coastline...

 district of the Kingdom of Bahrain. Work commenced on site in February 2008 and it had opened to the public in September 2008. The mall features 350 retailers which includes around 150 who have made their debut appearance in the kingdom,the complex covers 450,000 square meters. It is connected to the adjacent highways via elevated road ways.

Facilities

Bahrain City Center boasts some of the region's largest leisure facilities, such as the largest indoor/outdoor temperature controlled water parkhttp://www.wahooo.com.bh/ as well as the biggest cinema

Film

A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...

 complex in the region, with 20 screens which feature blockbuster Hollywood, Bollywood

Bollywood

Bollywood is the informal term popularly used for the Hindi-language film industry based in Mumbai , Maharashtra, India. The term is often incorrectly used to refer to the whole of Indian cinema; it is only a part of the total Indian film industry, which includes other production centers producing...

 and Arab movies.The complex also has a car park which contains 5500 parking bays on eight levels. It also features the first Carrefour

Carrefour

Carrefour S.A. is an international hypermarket chain headquartered in Levallois-Perret, France. It is one of the largest hypermarket chains in the world...

 branch in the Kingdom of Bahrain. A Family entertainment centre for children and young adults,called Magic Planet, and 10-pin bowling centre totalling 5,600 square metres are also available.http://www.bahraincitycentre.com/BCC/En/MainMenu/AboutBCC/tabid/64/Default.aspx Largest concentration of food outlets and restaurants (47 units) catering to every culinary taste and extending over 8,700 square meters total:

• 11 Coffee Shops (2,120 square meters)
• 12 Restaurants ( 5,284 square meters)
• 20 Food Court Units (1,105 square meters)
• 4 smaller F&B outlets catering for juice ,ice cream etc (203 square meters)http://www.bahraintourism.com/default.asp?action=article&id=559

Events

The BCC hosts an exhibition roughly every month , topics vary widely from an insects exhibition to an exhibition of the Quran as well as other cultural events.