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General Post Office (GPO) is the central post office for the city of Mumbai. The building was designed by John Begg and was completed in 1913. It is modelled on the lines of Gol Gumbaz in Vijayapura, Karnataka. The building is complete with domes and turrets and follows the Indo-Saracenic style of architecture.
The General Post Office, Mumbai, is the central post office of the city of Mumbai, India. The post office handles most of the city's inbound and outbound mail and parcels. Situated in the vicinity of Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus, the Mumbai General Post Office (GPO) is a paradigm of Indo-Saracenic architecture.
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CSMT; छत्रपती शिवाजी महाराज टर्मिनस Chhatrapatī Shivājī Mahārāj Ṭarminas
One of the main disembarking stations for suburban and long-distance trains. The road goes further up to Ballard Estate where a lot of corporate offices and Mumbai Port are situated. The station building is designed in the High Victorian Gothic style of architecture. The building exhibits a fusion of influences from Victorian Italianate Gothic Revival architecture and traditional Indian architecture. The skyline, turrets, pointed arches, and eccentric ground plan is close to traditional Indian palace architecture.
The V-shaped building built in Victorian Gothic style houses the office of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), also known as the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai (MCGM), the civic body that governs the city of Mumbai. The building was completed in 1893 and serves as the headquarters of BMC. It is classed as grade IIA heritage. The building is dominated by a 255 ft tall tower, which is crowned with a massive dome. The pediment of the building is crowned with a statue of a winged allegorical figure representing the urbs prima in Indis. The pediment also houses the coat of arms of Mumbai.
An extension to the fortified walls of Bombay built in 1769. The hill on which the Dongri Fort stood was razed, and in its place Fort George was built, named after king George III. In 1862, the fort was demolished. A part is visible near St. George Hospital. The fort was 1 mi long and about 1/3 mi in breadth. Its length was from NNE to SSW.
A cinema built in 1879 by Kunvarji Paghtivala as a theatre. It was converted into a cinema by 1928.
Parsi Fire Temple
The second-oldest Zoroastrian temple in Mumbai. Non-Parsis can only go inside the external walls of the temple, so you can admire its hybrid Persian-Greek Revival architecture, with two lamassus standing guard at the temple entrance.
मुद्रा संग्रहालय Mudrā Saṅgrahālay; मैद्रिक संग्रहालय Maudrik Saṅgrahālay
One of the museums in India that covers the evolution of money in the country, from the earliest barter system and the use of cowries to paper money, coins, stock markets and modern-day electronic transactions.