Gateway of India

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

Architectural postcard illustration of the Gateway of India in Mumbai, India
An architectural postcard from the Living Atlas.

A 26-meter basalt arch on the Apollo Bunder waterfront, completed in 1924 to welcome King George V to India.

Why Atlas chose this place

Indo-Saracenic stonework framing the Arabian Sea — Mumbai's front door, carved in honey-colored basalt.

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