Crawford Market Bazaars

A high gabled roof of red Mangalore tiles defines the skyline of Crawford Market. Arthur Crawford, the first municipal commissioner of Bombay, commissioned this building in eighteen sixty-nine to consolidate the city’s chaotic produce…

Ramanlal Vithaldas and Company occupies a narrow, deep storefront in Lohar Chawl that functions as a time capsule for Mumbai’s electrical trade. Floor-to-ceiling shelves packed with vintage switches, brass lamps, and heavy porcelain fuses…

Mangaldas Market stands out as a sprawling, Victorian-era textile maze covered by a distinctive series of high, vaulted corrugated iron roofs. Built in nineteen oh six by the British architect Marshall Mackenzie, it was commissioned by a…

The Juma Masjid sits at the center of Chippi Chawl, distinguished by its high, cream-colored walls and the large reflecting pool that occupies its interior courtyard. Built in the late eighteenth century, the mosque occupies a site that…

The narrow lanes of Zaveri Bazaar are defined by heavy iron shutters protecting storefronts packed with gold. Since the mid-nineteenth century, this district has functioned as the center of India's bullion trade. Merchants once weighed…

The Shri Mumba Devi temple features a peaked, multi-tiered shikhara covered in gold plating that shines above the dense local marketplace. This shrine houses the goddess Mumbadevi, the patron deity of the Koli fishing community who first…

The Shri Mumbai Panjrapole in Gulal Wadi sits behind high, solid walls that seal off an unexpected stretch of green from the dense chaos of south Mumbai. This facility functions as an animal asylum, founded in eighteen thirty-four by a…