Bomanjee Hormarjee Wadia Clock Tower - Historical landmark in Mumbai - Mumbai, India

Bomanjee Hormanjee Wadia was a Parsi Philanthropist who was contributed substantially to improve the quality of education in Bombay. The clock tower in his name was funded by the public in appreciation of his efforts. The structure is supposed to have been restored,, but still looks dilapidated

Just beside the Parsi Fire Temple We have a Clock Tower. The architecture of the clock tower is Persian with cuneiform inscriptions on all sides. The structure was restored in 2017 and a fence now protects the tower on all sides. The tower is a beautiful structure and a reminder of a bygone era--a piece of history in the middle of the high rises.

Well the structure is one of the heritage protected monument in the southern region of busy Mumbai. Apart from this, there is a road side joint to have some lip smacking road side pure veg chines. One should try at least half a plate of manchurian rice pricing 50/- per half plate. Highly recommended especially for mumbaikars

Best museum I ever visited in my life. Everything inside this museum is kept very sorted and each currency has a good description written with it.

This clock tower is officially called the Bomanjee Hormusjee Wadia Clock Tower, and is named in honour of Bomanjee Hormusjee Wadia, a philanthropist and scion of the Parsi Wadi family. The Wadi family are a Zoroastrian family which also explains the Persian architecture of the building with anatomically correct sphinxes with four legs instead of the usual six. Not sure if the clock works though as it seems to be stuck on ten to six. An unusual and interesting clock tower.

The Bomanjee Hormarjee Wadia Clock Tower located where the bustling Bazaar Gate Road meets Perin Nariman Street in Fort, Mumbai. The clock tower was erected in 1882. It was a commemorative fountain erected in honour of Bomanjee Hormarjee Wadia who died on 3rd July 1862 and who had contributed largely in the service of the city. It is a Grade IIIA Heritage structure. The fire temple stands a clock tower featuring 2 lamassus on four sides of the structure. The architecture has influence of Assyrian or Persepolis style as seen in winged bull reliefs on all facades and acanthus leaf cornice; built in Malad and Kurla stone.

A wonderful work of art taking you back in time to the 19th century. Built in memory of Bomonjee Hormarjee Wadia in 1880, almost 140 years ago!!!! Must have been of great help to the "Babus and Gora Sahibs" trying to reach office on time & to the traders and workers passing through. A classic example of fusion of Persian and European architectures. Must have been a very prominent landmark of the times, standing proudly bang in the middle of the busy Bazargate street (now Perin Nariman Street), with clocks on all its four sides that are functioning well even today. Today it is located between Union Bank of India on one side & Punjab National Bank on the other. Restoration work was recently carried out and the area has been rightly protected by fencing it on all sides.

Entrance is of course impossible but the place surrounding this really transports you to another time. Something really noteworthy on the structure though, are the cuneiform inscriptions on all sides. No one really knows what they mean and its sort of hilarious to think that the people making them also had no clue what they were writing.