Kala Ghoda
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Kala Ghoda Art Precinct | |
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Arts District/neighborhood | |
Coordinates: 18°55′51″N 72°49′59″E / 18.9307°N 72.8331°E | |
Country | India |
State | Maharashtra |
Metro | Mumbai |
PIN Code | 400032 |
Kala Ghoda (IPA:Kāḷā Ghōḍā,(काळा घोडा)lit. 'Black Horse') is a crescent-shaped art district/neighborhood in Mumbai, India.[1] It hosts several of the city's heritage buildings including museums, art galleries and educational institutions like the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya, the Jehangir Art Gallery, the National Gallery of Modern Art, and The Arts Trust - Institute of Contemporary Indian Art.[2]
The area hosts the Kala Ghoda Arts Festival annually in February. The area is sandwiched between Mumbai Port's docklands to the east, Regal Cinema to the south, Hutatma Chowk and Flora Fountain to the north and Oval Maidan to the west. The Bombay Stock Exchange is to its north east.
History
The name Kala Ghoda is a reference to the presence of a black stone statue of
Prior to the founding of the Bombay Stock Exchange, merchants often traded shares at the junction of Rampart row and Meadow street.[6]
Landmarks
The Esplanade Mansion, India's oldest surviving
- Esplanade Mansion, once Mumbai's premier and pioneering Watson's Hotel
- Bajaj Art Gallery
- Bombay Natural History Society
- Jehangir Art Gallery and the Pavement Gallery
- Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya, the main museum in Mumbai
- National Gallery of Modern Art
- Elphinstone College
- Rhythm House
- Max Müeller Bhavan – Indo-German cultural centre
- Army & Navy Building, housing the Westside shopping store
- David Sassoon Library
- Ropewalk Street
- Knesseth Eliyahoo Synagogue
- Church of St Andrew and St Columba
- Lion's Gate
- Zoroastrianstudies
- Mumbai University
- Civil and Sessions Court
- The Great Western Building, formerly Admiralty House.
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Kala Ghoda Fort
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Kalaghoda statue at the Jijamata Udyan, Byculla, Mumbai
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Watson's Hotel in Kala Ghoda.
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Army & Navy Building in Kala Ghoda
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Kala Ghoda mural depicting a black horse
See also
References
- ^ Kala Ghoda, Mumbai: India's Emerging Art District wsj.com. Retrieved 4 September 2021
- ^ "Kala Ghoda Association » Kala Ghoda Arts Festival". Archived from the original on 6 September 2014. Retrieved 6 September 2014.
- ^ Revenge of the native - LiveMint
- ^ "Mumbai: Over 50 yrs on, Kala ghoda returns today". The Indian Express. 3 January 2017. Retrieved 8 June 2017.
- ^ "Kala Ghoda in Mumbai gets its dark horse back without King Edward VII". hindustantimes.com/. 3 January 2017. Retrieved 8 June 2017.
- ^ Wacha, Dinshaw (1910). A Financial Chapter In The History Of Bombay City. A.J.Combridge And Company.
- Express Group. Archived from the originalon 12 June 2013. Retrieved 29 December 2008.
- ^ Marg Magazine website Archived 2009-05-07 at the Wayback Machine