Heritage Walk Held at Old Port Area in Mangalore to Celebrate World Heritage Day: Check Out

Mangalore Chapter of Indian National Trust for Art & Cultural Heritage (INTACH) organised a Heritage Walk through the Old Port area of Mangalore to celebrate World Heritage Day on Tuesday. The participants included artists, architects, bank officials and students.

The walk began from the Old Port on the Phalguni (Gurupura) bank at 7.10 a.m. Subhas Chandra Basu, convener of the Intach Mangalore Chapter, introduced the importance of the heritage walk at Bunder. The walk began from the Old Port on the Phalguni (Gurupura) bank at 7.10 a.m. in Mangalore on Tuesday, April 18, 2023. The first stop of the walk was at ‘Custom House.’ Ram Avtar Meena, Superintendent of Customs, welcomed the visitors to the 140-year-old building, which underwent restoration in 2019. Then the walk proceeded through the business area of traders and their storage buildings (godowns). Two historic mosques, the Kutchi Memon Masjid and the Zeenath Baksh Juma Masjid, with splendid architecture and exquisite woodwork, were visited. The walk concluded at Jain Basadi, serving the local merchant class, at around 9.15 a.m.