Great Indian Monuments Series ~ Gateway of India

in #travel7 years ago

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Let us go through the great Indian monuments in this series.

3 Gateway of India

It was built by architect George Wittet on the order of Sir George Sydenham Clarke, the Governor of Bombay, to commemorate the royal visit of King George V and Queen Mary, in 1911. It is located in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India and built in 10 years of time frame 1913-1924. It has Indo-Saracenic with Muslim influences style architecture and built using yellow kharodi basalt and reinforced concrete. It has a central dome of 48 feet in diameter and 83 feet in height.

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1 https://steemit.com/travel/@geek4geek/great-indian-monuments-series-buland-darwaza

2 https://steemit.com/travel/@geek4geek/great-indian-monuments-series-char-minar

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