Portuguese Church - The Church of Our Lady of Salvation was originally built by the Portuguese Outside the Church's main entrance, on what is now the footpath or sidewalk, is a mortuary memorial to a Baretto, built about 200-300 years ago, and which names the location as "Mahim". Indeed, at that time, the Church was one of two Catholic Churches on the then Island of Mahim, with a shallow sea separating it on the east and south sides from other islands of the Bombay Archipelag
The name "Dadar" signifies a small stairway built on the eastern edge of Mahim Island; when the British built the Bombay, Baroda & Central India Railways (B.B.&C.I.
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Thanks for sharing the photo!!
It is an amazing feeling to be in such a space.
Nice!! I feel the old church looks much better than the new one and should have been preserved. Ditto for St Michaels in Mahim.
The origin of the word 'Dadar' is difficult to trace. However, Molesworth's Marathi-English Dictionary, printed in 1831, has this word and it is explained - among other meanings - as '3.A bridge. 4.A Bombay word. A ladder-like and movable staircase.
The word is thus clearly pre-railway and existed as a Bombay word prior to 1831.
Sheppard, in his book 'Bombay Place Names and Street names' (1911) considers this as possibly a Koli word meaning 'a locality lying on the outskirt of a village'. He also mentions another locality called 'Dadar' which lay on the outskirt of the village Kelwe in Thana Distict.
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