00 Horniman Circle Garden - Art Deco Iron Pipe Fountain

Horniman Circle Garden

Address: 11, Homiji Street, Kala Ghoda, Fort, Mumbai - 400001, Maharashtra, India
Coordinates: 18.9319° N, 72.8349° E
Built by: Charles Forjett
Architectural Style: British Colonial

At the heart of the Fort precinct lies the central focus of the Horniman Circle Garden spread over an area of 10101 square metre. Historically, the area was known as Bombay Green, an unprotected area mainly used for the storage of cotton bales, opium and other merchandise. It is also a historical landmark where in 1851, an informal group of twenty-two stock brokers would trade under the banyan tree and thus begin the Native Share and Stock brokers Association which further manifested itself as the Bombay Stock Exchange. As trading activities moved from Bombay Green in the late nineteenth century, the dusty grounds were given the shape of a circular open garden under Mumbai’s first major urban design scheme, planned in 1869 and completed in 1872 with well laid walkways and trees and christened as Elphinstone Circle. The buildings around the circle primarily engaged in financial activity. In 1947, the Elphinstone Circle was renamed after B.G. Horniman, the renowned pro-freedom editor of the Bombay Samachar Press. There is activity in from its opening till closure everyday with people from all walks of life visiting this garden. The park designed on the lines of Park Crescent in London has a fence which is well designed.