Maneckji Nowroji Sett Agiary

This third “walk” through Old Bombay takes the grand tourist through four districts and suburbs, providing for a multi-cultural experience.

Bazaargate

Bazaargate was the erstwhile “Black Town” of the city; the commercial heart of the non-European residents of the city. Then as today, the city plays host to historic Parsi agiaries and Jain temples. In the 1930s, it was here, also, that a commercial and residential Art Deco style sprung up, in line with the newfound wealth of Bombay-ites.

Jain Temple, Bazaargate.

Art Deco Residence.

Blackie House – Victorian Gothic Revival.

United Building – Art Deco.

Pirojbai Dadabhoy Maneckji Vatcha Agiary (1881).

Gresham Building – Neoclassical.

Ballard Estate

Ballard Estate was the first deliberately planned commercial district in the city. It sits on reclaimed land and was converted, in 1914 – 1918, into a premiere business district in the city by the Bombay Port Trust. Today, it is verdant and tranquil residential area with a strong Edwardian atmosphere reminiscent of London.

Bombay Port Trust Building – note the ships on the facade.

“New” Customs House, designed by George Wittet.

Neville House.

MacKinnon MacKenzie Offices.

Bombay Seamen’s Society.

Reliance House – Art Deco.

Ballard Estate.

Grand Hotel, designed by George Wittet.

The Art Nouveau Cafe Universal.

Colaba

Colaba is the southernmost district of metropolitan Bombay (Mumbai), extending from the area around the Gateway to India, to the very tip of the Peninsula. The northern end of Colaba is home to luxurious residential villas and fashionable boutiques, cafes and restaurants; while the southern end is military. In between these extremes sits Colaba Causeway, a bustling, commercial street.

From one cafe to another – Cafe Mondegar

Cafe Leopold

The Salvation Army.

Churchill Chambers.

Former church building.

Holy Name Cathedral.

The YMCA.

Historic residence.

Historic Residence.

Electric House, along Colaba Causeway.

The historic Afghan Church (1858), or the Church of St John the Evangelist.

Interior of the Afghan Church.

Mazgaon

Mazgaon is the Portuguese quarter of Bombay, where remain Bombay’s community of Roman Catholics. Here too, one finds a major Ismaili landmark – the Hasanabad, traces of the Parsis, and – most importantly – Bombay’s only remaining Chinese temple.

Gloria Church, Mazgaon.

Rustomjee N Wadia Trust Building.

Hasanabad.

Entrance to Kwan Kung Temple – the only Chinese temple remaining in Bombay, situated in 12 Nawab Tank Road, the heart of Bombay’s former Chinatown.

Bombay’s only remaining Chinese temple – serving the spiritual needs of the former Sea Ip Koon community from Canton.