Horniman Circle Gardens
Mumbai
In South Mumbai, Horniman Circle Gardens represents a green territory among the soaring buildings. This large park sprawls in an area of 12,081 square yards, in the Fort district. It is encircled by the offices, complexes, lodging, and leading banks of India. Designed to be a large open space with grand buildings in the middle of the walled city, the area had been known as Bombay Green from the 18th century.
In the pre-independence era, the Horniman Circle Gardens was a preferred hangout of the Parsi community. Every evening, a band used to perform there. One of the most dynamic urban design settlements in Mumbai, Horniman Circle Gardens has numerous novel structures from the British Colonial period.
Following India’s independence in 1947, the area was renamed after Benjamin Horniman, editor of the Bombay Chronicle, who supported Indian independence. Nowadays, the laudable works of restoration by Horniman Circle Garden Trust and Horniman Circle Association are maintaining this vestige of the former times.
The Horniman Circle, which is a grand specimen of British Colonial era architecture, has an arcade with a small park, well planned walkways and rows of trees. The garden is adjacent to the famous landmark of Mumbai, the Asiatic Society.
