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Kissing the Skies Mount Mary – 34 viewsMount Mary Church, Bandra
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The Basilica of Our Lady of the Mount more commonly known as Mount Mary is a Roman Catholic church in the city of Mumbai, India. The church is one of the most visited churches in the city located in the suburb of Bandra. Every September, the feast of Mount Mary is celebrated on the Sunday following the September 8th which is the birthday of Mary the Mother of Jesus.. This is a week long celebration known as the Bandra Fair and is visited by thousands of people.
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The Church
The church stands on a hillock about 80 metres above sea level overlooking the Arabian Sea. It draws lakhs of devotees and pilgrims annually. Many faithful attest to the miraculous powers of the Mount. During the Bandra Fair, tens of thousands visit the shrine. The shrine attracts people from all faiths who pray to the statue for thanksgiving or requesting of favours.
During the Bandra Fair, the entire area is decorated with festoons and buntings. Many pitch up stalls selling religious objects, roasted grams and sweet items which is a must buy for most people visiting. Stalls sell sticky Goan sweets and wax idols of the Virgin along with an assortment of candles shaped like hands, feet and various other parts of the body. The sick and suffering choose one that corresponds to their ailment and light it in Church, with the pious hope that Mother Mary will consider their appeals for help.
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The statue
Although the current church edifice is just 100 years old, the history behind the current statue of Our Lady goes back to the 16th century when Jesuit priests from Portugal brought the statue to the current location and constructed a chapel. In 1700 Arab pirates interested in the gilt-lined object held in the hand disfigured the statue by cutting off the right hand.
In 1760, the church was rebuilt and the statue was substituted with a statue of Our Lady of Navigators in St. Andrew's church nearby. This statue has an interesting legend. It goes that a Koli fisherman dreamt that he would find a statue in the sea. The statue was found floating in the sea somewhere between 1700—1760. A Jesuit Annual Letter dated to 1669 and published in the book St. Andrew's Church, Bandra (1616-1966) supports this claim.
In 1761 the original statue was re-adorned with a child in her arms and has been in use ever since.
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Categories: Basilica churches in India Places of worship in Mumbai
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Candle Lit Face – 31 views
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She Shows Her Face – 37 views
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Camera Shy Flower Girl – 31 viewsShe did not want me to take her photo...
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Floral Beauty – 32 viewsThe people here at the stalls are very shy and normally hide ther faces I requested the Mother to allow her daughter to be included in the frame and she is a Floral Beauty..
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Candle Stalls 2 – 25 views
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Ganpati Bappa At Mount Marys – 39 viewsMutual coexistence among Gods , sell Candles and Ganpati Bappa too keeps an eye ..
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The Candle Stalls – 28 viewsBusiness is not so good this year and the stall owners pay a huge rent , deposit and also to others under the table as they call it, and thats life..and they also hope that the Lady of the Mount will take care and double their investments.. which I am sure she does , these are her own very special people..
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Have Luck will Travel – 24 viewsAnd the Lady Of the Mount also helps those who cannot help themselves , the poor the handicap and the disabled.
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Candle Power – 27 viewsCandle power yes and candles in all shapes and sizes, house candle if you want a house, a girl child, a boy child, a scooter, or any body part candle to rid of any afflictionto that part, the Lady of the Mount heals and this belief keeps the devotees coming , in hordes, from far flung corners of the country..and this Bandras greatest festive moment..and caste or religion is no barrier..
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Walking up the Mount Mary Steps – 41 viewsI took this from the up end , after climbing these steps you walk in a line on one side of the Road that is has clusters of shop sellling candles and flower garlands and enter the Baslica grounds where Mass is going on, and than enter the Inner Sanctum Sanctorum to see the miraculous statue of Mount Mary pray place yor offerings light the candles and exit on the other end at the back of the Baslica and climb downanother set of steps near Marys Clan and shop both sides and down the road till you move into Chapel Road and into Bandra Bazar Road on the way out to Bandra Subarban Station
And in the picture you can see the little boy selling candles.
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The Flower Power – 28 views
Most of the Indian festivals are incomplete without flowers and the Gods are far too human, they love flowers, the fragrance and flowers is love transformed to please Godliness.
And little kids dragging you from your garment end to buy a candle or a single rose, and the kids love commerce that curiosity of counting money like Man and that baksheesh kind words, 'OK keep the change.' . and the showing off to Mom the money he makes by the sweat and the smile of his brow..and I am reading Kazantakis English Translation of Temptaion of Christ for the nth time and for a man who likes words this is a book that adds imagery, to thought.I dont know why people get upset with any work of inspired art.And I gave Voltaire a break.. The white Bull Apis.. I am not into contemporary literature, I dont see films at all, no music only Sufi Qawwalis or Shia Nohas and Marsiyas.
And after I come from work, shower , dinner I read for half an hour, I dont read in the shop.
And ofcourse it is Internet and sharing my pictures and thoughts .. with faceless minds, and be praised by annonymous assholes for the wrong reasons.
And I dont have friends, and the monkey lady bought her monkey into my shop I had some pictures shot with him and I look a bigger two legged monkey than him.
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