page_title: Kala Ghoda
section_title: Landmarks
hierarchical_section_title: Kala Ghoda / Landmarks
caption_attribution_description: English: clicked by me at mumbai.
context_page_description: Kala Ghoda IPA:Kāḷā Ghōḍā is a crescent-shaped art district in Downtown Mumbai. It has many of the city's heritage buildings, and is full of museums, art galleries and educational institutions like the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya, the Jehangir Art Gallery, the National Gallery of Modern Art, and The Arts Trust - Institute of Contemporary Indian Art. Each year in February, the area hosts the Kala Ghoda Arts Festival. The area is sandwiched between Mumbai Port's docklands to the east, Regal Cinema to the south, Hutatma Chowk and Flora Fountain to the north and Oval Maidan to the west. The Bombay Stock Exchange is to its north east.
  The name Kala Ghoda means Black Horse, a reference to the presence of a black stone statue of King Edward VII mounted on a horse that was built by Jewish businessman and philanthropist Albert Abdullah David Sassoon, although this statue was removed from the precinct in 1965 and subsequently placed inside the Byculla Zoo. A local legend stated that the statues of King Edward and the one of Shivaji on a horse at the Gateway of India came to life after midnight and battled it out on the streets.
context_section_description: Esplanade Mansion, once Mumbai's premier and pioneering Watson's Hotel
  Bajaj Art Gallery
  Bombay Natural History Society
  Jehangir Art Gallery and the Pavement Gallery
  Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya, the main museum in Mumbai
  National Gallery of Modern Art
  Elphinstone College
  Rhythm House
  Max Müeller Bhavan – Indo-German cultural centre
  Army & Navy Building, housing the Westside shopping store
  David Sassoon Library
  Ropewalk Street
  Knesseth Eliyahoo Synagogue
  St. Andrew and Columba's Church
  Lion's Gate
  K. R. Cama Oriental Institute, Asia's oldest library and research archive exclusively devoted to Indo-Iranian and Zoroastrian studies
  Mumbai University
  Civil and Sessions Court
  The Great Western Building, formerly Admiralty House.
caption: 'Kala Ghoda signage'
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