Asiatic Society & Town Hall
Horniman Circle, Mumbai, 400001, India
The Asiatic Society of Mumbai occupies the Town Hall — a Greek Revival masterpiece of 30 Doric columns completed in 1833 that is one of the finest neoclassical buildings in India and the oldest surviving public building in Mumbai.
Banganga Tank
Walkeshwar, Mumbai, 400006, India
Banganga Tank is Mumbai's oldest surviving structure — a sacred water tank at the tip of Malabar Hill that predates the city itself, dating to approximately 1127 AD and associated with the legend of Lord Rama, who shot an arrow into the ground to create a freshwater spring during his journey to Lanka.
Bollywood & Film City
Film City Road, Goregaon East, Mumbai, 400065, India
Mumbai is the home of Bollywood — the Hindi-language film industry that produces over 1,500 films per year (more than Hollywood), employs hundreds of thousands of people, and generates the movies, music, and dance sequences that are the dominant popular culture across South Asia, the Middle East, and the Indian diaspora worldwide.
Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya
Mahatma Gandhi Road, Goregaon West, Mumbai, 400104, India
CSMVS (formerly the Prince of Wales Museum) is Mumbai's most important museum — a domed Indo-Saracenic masterpiece completed in 1922 to commemorate the 1905 visit of King George V (then Prince of Wales), housing one of India's finest collections of art, archaeology, and natural history.
Colaba Causeway
Shahid Bhagat Singh Marg, Colaba, Mumbai, 400005, India
Colaba Causeway is Mumbai's most famous shopping and eating street — a commercial corridor in the Colaba district south of the Gateway of India that combines street vendors (selling everything from jewellery and clothing to antiques and bootleg Bollywood DVDs), colonial-era cafés, and the tourist-oriented commerce of a neighbourhood that has been Mumbai's first point of contact with visitors since the days of the steamship.
Dharavi
Dharavi, Mumbai, 400017, India
Dharavi is one of the largest slums in Asia — a 2.
Dhobi Ghat
Mahalaxmi, Mumbai, 400018, India
Dhobi Ghat is the world's largest open-air laundry — a 140-year-old complex of concrete wash pens where over 7,000 dhobis (washermen and washerwomen) hand-wash clothes and linens from Mumbai's hotels, hospitals, and households using methods that have been used since the facility was built during the British Raj.
Haji Ali Dargah
Haji Ali, Mumbai
Haji Ali Dargah is a mosque and tomb built on a tiny island in the Arabian Sea, connected to the Mumbai mainland by a 500-metre causeway that is submerged at high tide — creating a building that appears to float on the water.
ISKCON Juhu Temple
Juhu, Mumbai, 400049, India
The ISKCON Juhu Temple (formally Sri Sri Radha Rasabihari Temple) is the largest Hare Krishna temple in Asia — a marble and gold complex inaugurated in 1978 under the guidance of ISKCON founder Srila Prabhupada, with a towering shikhara (spire) visible across Juhu and an interior decorated with mirror-work, murals from the life of Krishna, and the three altar deities (Radha-Rasabihari, Sita-Rama-Laxman-Hanuman, and Gaura-Nitai) who are the focus of daily worship.
Kala Ghoda Art District
Nariman Point, Mumbai, 400021, India
Kala Ghoda is Mumbai's art district — a neighbourhood of Victorian and Art Deco buildings in the Fort area that houses the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya (formerly the Prince of Wales Museum, Mumbai's most important museum), the Jehangir Art Gallery, the National Gallery of Modern Art, and the independent galleries and design studios that make this the cultural centre of the city.
Mahalaxmi Temple
Mahalaxmi Temple Lane, Cumballa Hill, Mumbai, 400026, India
The Mahalaxmi Temple is one of Mumbai's oldest Hindu temples — built in 1831 on a headland overlooking the Arabian Sea, it is dedicated to the three goddesses Mahalaxmi (wealth), Mahakali (power), and Mahasaraswati (knowledge), whose idols were allegedly recovered from the sea by a devotee following a dream.
Mani Bhavan Gandhi Museum
Laburnum Road, Gamdevi, Mumbai, 400007, India
Mani Bhavan is the two-storey house where Mahatma Gandhi stayed during his visits to Bombay between 1917 and 1934 — the base from which he launched the Non-Cooperation Movement (1920), the Civil Disobedience Movement (1932), and where he first experimented with the charkha (spinning wheel) that became the symbol of Indian self-reliance.
Mount Mary Basilica
Mount Mary Road, Bandra West, Mumbai, 400050, India
Mount Mary Basilica is a Roman Catholic church on a hill in Bandra that is one of Mumbai's most visited religious sites, drawing Hindus, Muslims, and Christians who come to pray to the statue of Our Lady of the Mount — a 16th-century Portuguese-era Madonna believed to answer prayers.
Mumbai Street Food Trail
Colaba Cross Road, Colaba, Mumbai, 400005, India
Mumbai's street food is the most diverse, affordable, and flavourful in India — a culinary ecosystem of vendors, stalls, and tiny restaurants serving the foods that feed 20 million people daily and that represent every regional Indian cuisine adapted for the pace of a city that never stops moving.
Siddhivinayak Temple
Mumbai, India
Siddhivinayak is Mumbai's most famous Hindu temple — a Ganesh shrine in Prabhadevi founded in 1801 whose tiny black-stone deity (depicted with his trunk tilted to the right, a rare configuration believed to be particularly powerful) draws up to 200,000 devotees daily, making it one of the wealthiest temples in India.
Worli Koliwada
Worli, Mumbai, 400030, India
Worli Koliwada is the oldest surviving fishing village in Mumbai — home to the Koli community, the indigenous fisherfolk who have lived on these islands since before the Portuguese arrived in 1534 and whose culture, cuisine, and settlements predate the city by centuries.
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