Place · colonial memorial arch · India
Gateway of India, Mumbai
Also known as Gateway of India, Apollo Bunder
The twenty-six-metre basalt triumphal arch on the Apollo Bunder facing the Arabian Sea, built between 1911 and 1924 by George Wittet in Indo-Saracenic style to commemorate the 1911 landing of King George V and Queen Mary at Bombay for the Delhi Durbar. The 1948 departure of the last British troops from India through the Gateway — the First Battalion of the Somerset Light Infantry marched out on 28 February 1948 — turned the arch into a reverse monument. It is Mumbai's single most-visited colonial-era landmark, facing the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel across the harbour approach.
- Date
- 1911–1924
- Function
- Authority & administration
- Patron dynasty
- British Raj
- Tradition
- Standard reference; INTACH, ASI and municipal records; institutional histories.
- Confidence
- Established / referenced
- Location
- 18.922, 72.835
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- Site withinMumbai
The Gateway of India sits on the Apollo Bunder at the harbour entrance of south Mumbai, within the city's walled Fort district and facing the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel across the harbour approach. The 1911 landing of King George V marking the arch's origin and the 1948 departure of the last British troops marking its reverse symbolism make it the single most consequential colonial monument of the Mumbai urban landscape.