16 Facts About Kurla

Kurla gets its name from the East Indian village of Kurla, whose name, in turn, originated from "Kurli", the local name for crab, as these were found in plenty in marshes in the vicinity of the village.

Kurla remained under Portuguese rule until the British occupied Salsette Island in 1774.

In 1805, Kurla was connected to Sion on Bombay Island by the Sion Causeway.

Kurla had two cotton mills, one of them, the Dharamsi Punjabhai, being the largest cotton spinning and weaving mill in the Bombay Presidency, with 92,094 spindles and 1280 looms.

The Holy Cross Church at Kurla, built during the Portuguese rule and rebuilt in 1848, is one of the oldest churches in Mumbai.

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The Stone quarries of Kurla were well known and supplied material for the construction of most of the city's famous heritage buildings like the Prince of Wales Museum, and the General Post Office among others.

In 1910, there were reported to be several mills in Kurla, engaged in the manufacturing of cotton cloth and woollen cloth in steam factories.

Kurla was an old textile industrial core, an outlier to the main cotton mill zone.

Kurla East is bordered by the suburban neighbourhoods of Chunabhatti in the south, Chembur in the East and Ghatkopar in the North.

Kurla West is surrounded by Ghatkopar and Saki Naka neighbourhood of Andheri East to its North, Kalina and the Bandra Kurla Complex to its West and the Sion – Dharavi area to its south across the Mahim Creek.

Kurla is the headquarters of the Kurla taluka of Mumbai Suburban District.

Kohinoor city is an integrated township in Kurla west, comprising about 900,000 sq ft of commercial space and about 300,000 sq ft for retail, residential, hospitality and education.

Kurla is accessible from all parts of Mumbai by road and rail due to its central location.

The road begins at the southern end of Salsette Island, passing through Kurla and continuing up north into Ghatkopar towards Thane.

Kurla railway station is a junction of the Central Railway Suburban line and the Harbour Line.

Kurla has one engineering college, Don Bosco Institute of Technology, and several schools, including:-.