Lady Jamshedjee Road, better known as "L.J. Road", is a major road that runs through
Mahim in
Mumbai
Mumbai (, ; also known as Bombay — List of renamed Indian cities and states#Maharashtra, the official name until 1995) is the capital city of the Indian States and union territories of India, state of Maharashtra and the ''de facto'' fin ...
. It is named in honour of Lady
Jamshetjee Jeejeebhoy, a philanthropic
Parsi
Parsis () or Parsees are an ethnoreligious group of the Indian subcontinent adhering to Zoroastrianism. They are descended from Persians who migrated to Medieval India during and after the Arab conquest of Iran (part of the early Muslim conq ...
lady who funded the construction of
Mahim causeway.
L.J. Road is a busy thoroughfare much used by road conveyances commuting between
South Mumbai
South Mumbai, colloquially SoBo from South Bombay in Anglo-Indian English, administratively the Mumbai City District, is the city centre and the southernmost precinct of Greater Bombay. It extends from Colaba to Mahim and Sion neighbour ...
and West Mumbai. It is essentially an extension of
Swami Vivekanand Road and the
Mahim Causeway.
Landmarks
Several prominent landmarks of the area, are located on the road. These include:
*
St. Michael's church, Mahim
*The Mahim Dargah
*The Sitala Devi temple
*Citylight movie theatre
*iService Center
*Sena Bhavan, headquarters of the
Shiv Sena
*Janta Tea House (famous Teas stall established in 1969)
Additionally, the road provides access to
Shivaji Park
Shivaji Park, officially Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Park, is a public park situated in Dadar, Mumbai. It is the largest park in the island city. Similar but bigger in size to Azad Maidan and August Kranti Maidan (formerly Gowalia Tank Ground ...
,
Hinduja Hospital,
Bombay Scottish School
The Bombay Scottish School, Mahim (BSS or BSS Mahim), popularly known as Scottish, is a private, Christian co-educational day school located at Mahim West in Mumbai, India. The institution was established in 1847 by Scottish Christian missionar ...
and Plaza theatre, all of which lie just off the road.
References
Streets in Mumbai
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