Place · medieval capital town · India
Chandor, Goa
The historic Goan town in South Goa, 40 kilometres from Panaji — the medieval capital of the Chandrapur kingdom of Goa (6-11th century), named Chandor from the Kadamba name Chandraura, that preceded both the Kadamba and the Portuguese capitals. The town's pre-Portuguese Kadamba archaeological zone preserves excavated foundations of 10th-century Hindu temples and a Jain basadi. Modern Chandor is famous for the 1595 Fernandes mansion (also called the Casa dos Fernandes) and the 1689 Menezes-Braganza mansion — the largest surviving Indo-Portuguese private houses in India, with 28-and-32-room ground floors furnished with 18-century Portuguese and Chinese furniture. The 1510 Portuguese Church of Our Lady of Belém holds surviving 16th-century Baroque altars. ASI and INTACH listed.
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- Religious institution & practice
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- Established / referenced
- Location
- 15.254, 73.957
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- Site withinOld Goa
Chandor, Goa sits inside Old Goa and forms one piece of its layered sacred, royal or civic landscape. The city carries this entry as one of the sites that make its urban fabric legible — a shrine, monument, institution or craft tradition specifically anchored at this location — and the city's broader history reads better when the stop is seen in its context rather than in isolation. The surrounding streets, markets and other heritage ensembles around it belong to the same single city.
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Sources
Wikipedia, “Chandor”. Charles Boxer, The Portuguese Seaborne Empire; the Historical Archives of Goa; UNESCO’s Churches and Convents of Goa file.
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