Mahim Fort
A Portuguese fort at the mouth of Mahim creek, ruined and built into.
- Where
- Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Grade
- State heritage
- Worth
- 10 points collected on site, plus 3 for its grade
- Coordinates
- 19.0399, 72.8378
Get the Mahim Fort stamp
Open LOQAH when you are at Mahim Fort. It checks where you are once, at that moment, and the stamp is yours: confirmed on site in gold and struck with the date. It goes into your Maharashtra volume with your photos and a note.
Near Mahim Fort
Bandra Bandstand 1.5 km
The fort, the sea wall and the queue outside Mannat.
Chaitya Bhoomi 1.7 km
Where Ambedkar was cremated in 1956, and where lakhs come on the sixth of December.
Mount Mary Church 1.8 km
The basilica above Bandra, with a fair in September and a statue found in the sea.
Castella de Aguada 2.0 km
The Portuguese watchtower at Bandra, 1640, and the reason the suburb has a fort road.
Rajgruha 2.3 km
Ambedkar's house at Dadar, built for his library of fifty thousand books.
Bandra Worli Sea Link 2.3 km
Cable stayed across Mahim Bay, its steel wire long enough to circle the earth, opened in 2009.
Siddhivinayak Temple 2.7 km
Built in 1801 by a woman who had no children of her own, so that others might, and now queued round the block.
Worli Fort 2.9 km
A small British fort of 1675 on a rock above a fishing village, now surrounded by the city it was built to watch.
More state heritage sites in Maharashtra
Questions
Where is Mahim Fort?
Mahim Fort is in Mumbai, Maharashtra. The nearest other LOQAH stamps are Bandra Bandstand (1.5 km), Chaitya Bhoomi (1.7 km), Mount Mary Church (1.8 km).
How do I get the Mahim Fort stamp?
Open LOQAH when you are at Mahim Fort and get its stamp. The app checks where you are once, at that moment, and the stamp goes into your Maharashtra volume, confirmed on site, with the date.
I have been to Mahim Fort before. Can I still have the stamp?
Yes. Add it from Earlier trips in your Maharashtra volume, with the date if you know it, or import your Google Timeline and LOQAH matches the places you were.
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