Here’s How Neighbourhoods In Mumbai Got Their Names

Ghatkopar, Byculla, Chinchpokli, and many more. Aamchi Mumbai is full of strange sounding neighborhoods. What’s weirder still is that some of these names have quite the history attached to them. Finally we have the answer to the question, ‘where do they keep all the curry at Currey Road?’

Kudos to Debarpan Das for this compilation .

1. If you thought it was named after a literal ‘Masjid’ you were wrong.

2. This one sounds obvious enough.

3. Next station Sion. Pudheel station Sheev.