Bombay (City)

Bombay (City)
Presidency: Bombay
Coordinates:	19.017656°N, 72.85618°E
Altitude:	8 m (26 ft)
Present Day Details
Place Name:	Mumbai
State/Province:	Maharashtra
Country:	India
Transport links
Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway Great Indian Peninsula Railway Bombay Port Trust Railway

Bombay (now Mumbai) was the capital of the Bombay Presidency and is now the capital of the state of Maharashtra.

History

The city was Portuguese controlled from 1534 and under British rule from 1661 when it was received by Charles II as part of his marriage dowry from his Portuguese wife, Catherine De Braganza. In 1668 it was granted to the East India Company for a lease of ten pounds a year. Until the 18th century, Bombay consisted of seven islands. The islands were merged to form the present day location of the city.

Churches

Anglican

• All Saints - Malabar Hill
• Christ Church - Byculla
• St. Thomas Cathedral - the oldest Anglican church in the city, built in 1718, consecrated 1816, became the cathedral of the See of Bombay in 1833. On the south side of Church Gate Street. Originally the garrison church. See Bombay Church by Richard Cobbe for an account of the building of the English Church.

Presbyterian

• St Andrew's - the Scotch Kirk, Rampart Row, opened 1819
• St John the Evangelist, Colaba - aka the Afghan Church, consecrated 1858. Built to commemorate the dead of the 1st Afghan War.

Roman Catholic
Addresses of all current Catholic Churches in Mumbai (Archdiocese of Mumbai). See also Bombay in the Catholic Encyclopedia 1913.

• Cathedral of the Holy Name
• Church of the Holy Trinity
• Gloria Church - aka Nossa Senhora de Gloria, founded 1632, at Byculla
• Mount Mary Church, Bandra - aka the Basilica of Our Lady of the Mount
• Our Lady of Egypt - founded 1606
• Our Lady of Good Country - aka Nossa Senhora de Bom Concelho, founded 1596
• Our Lady of Health - aka Nossa Senhora de Saude, built 1794
• Our Lady of Hope - aka Nossa Senhora da Esperanca, demolished
• Our Lady of Salvation - aka Nossa Senhora de Salvação or the Portuguese Church, founded 1596, current structure is 1974
• St. Andrew's Church - built 1575
• St Michaels - founded by the Portuguese in 1534 (current building dates only to 1973)
• St Peter's, Bandra - Jesuit church. Original building 1852, current building 1938, consecrated 1964

Other

• Free Church of Scotland
• Wesleyan Methodist Church - at Colaba

• St Nicholas

Orphan Schools

Refer Orphans-Bombay

External links

Historical Books Online

• An Historical Account of the Settlement and Possession of Bombay, by the English East India Company, and of the Rise and Progress of the War with the Mahratta Nation by Samuel Pechel 1781 Google Books
• Bombay 1809 Journal of a Residence in India by Maria Graham 2nd Edition 1813 Illustrated by Engravings Google Books
• The English in Western India: being the early history of the factory at Surat, of Bombay, and the subordinate factories on the western coast by Philip Anderson 1854 Google Books
• A Handbook for India. Part II. Bombay by John Murray 1859 Google Books
• Bombay place-names and street-names; an excursion into the by-ways of the history of Bombay City by Samuel Townsend Sheppard 1917 Archive.org
• Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency
  • Volume 26, Part 1 Materials towards a statistical account of the Town and Island of Bombay - History 1893 Archive.org
  • Volume 26, Part 2 Materials towards a statistical account of the Town and Island of Bombay - Trade and Fortifications 1894 Archive.org
  • Volume 26, Part 3 Materials towards a statistical account of the Town and Island of Bombay - Administration 1894 Archive.org
• Glimpses of old Bombay and western India, with other papers by James Douglas 1900 Archive.org

Other

• Bombay City Love to Know 1911.
• Mumbai Wikipedia.
• History of Mumbai Wikipedia.
• Bombay Map 1909 from the Asia Historical Maps Collection, University of Texas, Austin