Explore a bazaars and bylanes of Masjid Bunder this Sunday

“Trust me, a slight bylanes in Masjid Bunder are not a walker’s pleasure on weekdays. They are packaged with outrageous trucks and all we can hear is continual honking and a gibberish of labourers. It’s usually on Sunday that we can indeed see a streets,” says designer Deepa Nandi, who was introduced to a swarming and pell-mell South Mumbai village while operative on a documentary with filmmaker Vaibhav Dixit final year.

The easy Keshavji Naik pyau (water fountain) in Masjid Bunder

From being an aged fishing encampment to a troops ordain during a Colonial era, a west-side area along Masjid railway station, also housing dual of a oldest bridges in a city — Masjid and Carnac — is currently a bustling indiscriminate marketplace. “An aerial perspective reveals how it grew organically. It comprises several streets and any one offers a opposite flavour,” adds Nandi, owner of citywalk organization Raahgeer. She will try into this obstruction with a organisation of 20 guest on Sunday for a Bhat Bazaar walk.

Passersby moisten their lust during a usually functioning birthright pyau in a city. Pic/Datta Kumbhar

Bazaars and bylanes
Starting from Masjid railway station, a travel will cover a landmark sites in dual bylanes — Katha Bazaar and Bhat Bazaar — heading to a Gate of Mercy Synagogue on Samuel Street. A marketplace traditionally lined with shops offered ropes done from coconut coir, Katha Bazaar was also badly strike during a 1992 blasts. Bhat Bazaar derives a name from a indiscriminate supply of rice that it witnessed during a heyday. The travel will also embody stories of other bylanes, like Daana Bazaar, a marketplace for offered grains and a Saag Gully, where we could buy a accumulation of greens.

Deepa Nandi (seated in front row, right) with guest during an progressing Raahgeer walk

The categorical captivate is an exuberant Keshavji Naik Pyau that occupies a honour of place in a area. Over 120 years old, a H2O fountain was easy final year by designer and birthright conservationist Rahul Chemburkar’s organisation Vaastu Vidhaan Projects, as partial of a ongoing Mumbai Pyau Project. “It is a usually functioning celebration H2O fountain of all a birthright pyaus in a city.

The plea was to revive it to a strange state,” says Chemburkar, who will join Nandi on a walk, to narrate stories of a iconic landmark and a restoration.

Also fasten a twin is Rajendra Aklekar, author of Halt Station India, that chronicles a arise of India’s rail network. “The Masjid Bunder area was an critical place given it was too tighten to a strange Boree Bunder hire when a railways arrived in India in 1853. we will plead a few corpse that have been fibbing around a hire area for 200 years and share stories around them,” says Aklekar.

Sketch and doodle
The final 30 mins of a two-hour travel will declare guest sketching, doodling or penning poems and stories around a area. “The thought is to observe a crunched spaces of Bombay in detail, that are mostly ignored in a bustling lives. The guest will get to catch a marvels during a travel and then, demonstrate them creatively by opposite forms of art,” sums adult Nandi.

The other stopovers

Cannon temple

Cannon temple: “Old timers would ceremony a cannon church as it was once a guardian of a internal fishing community,” informs Aklekar.

Bhungi complement of Bhat Bazaar: A complement where shops are construct-ed in a approach that a window is above a highway and other half below. “The shopkeepers and business sell their products from opposite levels. This complement is seen usually in this area in a city. We aren’t wakeful of since it is prevalent here. But it exists since previously, shopkeepers would store outrageous volume of grains in a area. So, a Bhungi acted as both, a storage and offered space,” says Nandi.

Gate Of Mercy synagogue on Samuel Street

Gate Of Mercy Synagogue: A little Jewish place of worship, with a six-cornered Star Of David during a entrance, it is partial of a Israeli mohalla on Samuel Street, and a oldest synagogue in a city.

Masjid and Carnac: They are dual of a oldest bridges in Mumbai, featuring aged signage and relics, many of that have been pulled down.

ON Aug 28, 10 am to 12 noon 
MEETING POINT Masjid railway hire (near engagement counter)
RSVP raahgeer2015@gmail.com
CALL 9619438214
COST Rs 300 (pay on a spot)

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