Girgaon Chowpatty
Girgaon Chowpatty
Girgaum Chowpatty | |
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Neighbourhood | |
Girgaon Chowpatty during Ganesh Visarjan | |
Girgaon Chowpatty | |
| Coordinates: 18°57′04″N 72°48′40″E / 18.951°N 72.811°E | |
| Country | India |
| State | Maharashtra |
| District | Mumbai City |
| City | Mumbai |
| Government | |
| • Type | Municipal Corporation |
| • Body | Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (MCGM) |
| Languages | |
| • Official | Marathi |
| Time zone | UTC+5:30 (IST) |
Girgaon Chowpatty (IAST: Giragāva Chaupāṭī), is a public beach at the eastern end of the Queen’s Necklace adjoining Malabar Hill in the Girgaon area of Mumbai (Bombay), Maharashtra, India. It is served by the Charni Road railway station. The beach is noted for its Ganesh Visarjan, when thousands of people from all over Mumbai and Pune come to immerse idols of Ganesha in the Arabian Sea after the 10 day festival of Ganesh Chaturthi. It is also one of the many places in the city where the Ramlila play is performed onstage every year during Navaratri, and an effigy of Ravana is erected on the sand is burned on Vijayadashami at the end of the 10 day performance.