Putting the 'church' back into Mumbai's Churchgate

There's a long standing joke about one of Mumbai's earliest neighbourhoods, Churchgate. When commuters emerge from its railway terminus or visitors disembark at the elaborate square, there is no church to be found nor a gate. However, if one can wade through the highrises, commercial buildings, traffic and smog that have done history in, you do arrive at a church called St Thomas Cathedral that was built within the fortified settlement of Fort in 1718. There also existed a gate situated where the Flora Fountain now stands and formed the southern boundary of Mumbai, but was later removed. Together they gave Churchgate, the station and the precinct, its name.

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