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Vignettes of Mumbai's Prized Sassoon Docks

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Raring to go

In Waiting

Docked after work

Colours of the Docks

The New Docks

At Sea...At Work

Just before the trip

Besides being one of the oldest docks in Mumbai,  Sassoon Docks is one of the few docks in the city open to the public. Located just off Cuffe Parade in South Mumbai the place is one of the largest fish markets in the city. Its prized neighbours include the Mumbai Port Trust Garden and Offices of Fisheries Department and it overlooks Oyster Rock, an island in the Mumbai harbour, located at a distance within the sea.

Sassoon Docks was built in 1875 on reclaimed land, by Albert Abdullah David Sassoon (1818–1896), son of David Sassoon, a Baghdadi Jew and the leader of the Jewish community in Bombay, belonging to the Sassoon family. The docks is the main fish loading and trading centre in South Mumbai. The Sassoon Docks was incidentally featured in one of the episodes of the reality series: The Amazing Race.

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