UNESCO railway terminus · Fort
Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus
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Mumbai's great railway threshold: Victorian Gothic, Indo-Saracenic detail, suburban urgency, and one of the city's strongest first scenes.
- 01 Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus
- 02 Asiatic Society Steps
- 03 Gateway of India
Start across the road — read the façade before the commute thickens.
Still the strongest opening scene in the city. Begin every Fort walk here.
Read it from across the road before the commute thickens. The Gothic detailing rewards a slow first look.
Begin here before the commute thickens. The building is best read from across the road, slowly.
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Background
Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus (CST), officially Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus (CSMT), and also known as Victoria Terminus (VT), its official name until 1996, is a historic railway terminus and UNESCO World Heritage Site in Mumbai (Bombay), Maharashtra, India. The terminus was designed by a British architectural engineer Frederick William Stevens from an initial design by Axel Haig, in an exuberant Indo Gothic style. Its construction began in 1878, in a location south of the old Bori Bunder railway station, and was completed in 1887, the year of Queen Victoria's Golden Jubilee. The station was inaugurated to the general public on 20 May 1888. In March 1996, the station's official name … Wikipedia
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