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Synthesis and characterization of one-dimensional nanostructures have attracted attention primarily due to their potential myriad applications in different fields including magnetic, electronic and optical devices. There are various techniques used in the fabrication of one-dimensional structures but template synthesis is an elegant, versatile and economic method for synthesizing variety of these one dimensional nanostructures, and so on. Highly ordered Ag2S nanowires each having 100 nm diameters were synthesised into the pores of anodic alumina membrane (AAM) template by using direct chemical deposition method. The nanowires were deposited using silver nitrate as a Ag+ ion source and sodium sulphide as S2- ion source . The nanowires were characterized by Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) and UV-Vis spectrophotometer to see surface morphology and optical band gap respectively. The as- deposited Ag2S nanowires embedded in AAM are black in colour and having optical band gap 0.95 eV.