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Can you identify these Mumbai heritage icons?

Updated on: 18 April,2015 08:40 AM IST  | 
The Guide Team |

On World Heritage Day, we’ve spun things around for our readers with a Mumbai landmark photo quiz. All you need to do is identify these 10 icons of Mumbai. Luckily, we’ve thrown in a clue as well. Go figure!

Can you identify these Mumbai heritage icons?

Clue: Named after a Roman goddess, it stands at an axis between St Thomas Cathedral and Churchgate station
Clue: Named after a Roman goddess, it stands at an axis between St Thomas Cathedral and Churchgate station


Clue: This quaint burrough lies nestled in the middle of buzzing Girgaon and is home to Portuguese-styled villas
Clue: This quaint burrough lies nestled in the middle of buzzing Girgaon and is home to Portuguese-styled villas


Clue: The last of the British troops left India through its corridors
Clue: The last of the British troops left India through its corridors


Clue: One side of this building faces the city’s police headquarters
Clue: One side of this building faces the city’s police headquarters

Clue: Built in Gothic style, statues of Justice and Mercy are atop its building
Clue: Built in Gothic style, statues of Justice and Mercy are atop its building

Clue: This building was earlier named after the Prince of Wales
Clue: This building was earlier named after the Prince of Wales

Clue: It’s home to Mumbai’s most famous tower, and no, not the residential kinds!
Clue: It’s home to Mumbai’s most famous tower, and no, not the residential kinds!

Clue: The dome of this building closely resembles Bijapur’s Gol Gumbaz
Clue: The dome of this building closely resembles Bijapur’s Gol Gumbaz

Clue: Statues of a seated lion and a tiger guard the main entrance to the structure’s offices
Clue: Statues of a seated lion and a tiger guard the main entrance to the structure’s offices

Clue: It’s designed by the same person who had designed the CST (Victoria Teminus) before he began work on it
Clue: It’s designed by the same person who had designed the CST (Victoria Teminus) before he began work on it


Pics/ Atul Kamble, Bipin Kokate, Rane Ashish, Satyajit Desai, Shadab Khan & Sameer Markande

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