Image:Watson's-Hotel.jpg in Kala Ghoda.]] '''Kala Ghoda''' is a precinct or district in South Mumbai, India. The name means '''Black Horse''', a reference to a black stone statue of King Edward VII (as the then Prince of Wales) mounted on a horse. Although this statue was removed sometime after 1947 to storehouses of the Bhau_Daji_Lad_Museum (formerly the Victoria_&_Albert_Museum_(Mumbai)) in Byculla, Central Mumbai, the name persists. A reprint of a photograph of the district showing the statue in position is to be seen framed over the entrance to the elevator in the Commerce House building located between Ropewalk Street and Meadows Street (Nagindas Master Road), just off V.B. Gandhi Road. The district is Mumbai's premiere art district. Each year, the area holds a cultural fest promoting the arts. In 1896, India's first film was shot here. The area is sandwiched between Mumbai Port's off-limits docklands to the east, Regal_Cinema to the south, Fountain to the north and Oval_Maidan to the west. North of Kala Ghoda is the Fountain district and south of it is a district variously called after the S.P. Mukerjee Chowk (former Wellingdon Circle), (Prince of Wales) Museum or the Regal Cinema. North-east is located the Bombay_Stock_Exchange district, also called Dalal Street, called after the lane on which the actual Stock Exchange is located. Prominent landmarks include: * The dilapidated and slummified Esplanade Mansion, once Mumbai's premier and pioneering Watson's_Hotel * Jehangir_Art_Gallery and the Pavement_Gallery * Prince_of_Wales_Museum * National_Gallery_of_Modern_Art * Elphinstone_College * Rhythm_House * Max_Müeller_Bhavan – Indo-German cultural centre * Army_&_Navy_Building, housing the Westside shopping store * David_Sassoon_Library * Ropewalk_Street * Knesseth_Eliyahoo_Synagogue * St._Andrew_and_Columba's_Church * Lion_Gate * K._R._Cama_Oriental_Institute, Asia's oldest library and research archive exclusively devoted to Indo-Iranian and Zoroastrian studies * Mumbai_University * Civil_and_Sessions_Court * The dilapidated Great_Western_Building, formerly Admiralty House. ==External links== * Kala Ghoda Art Festival Organizing Committee * A History of the District Category:Mumbai_neighbourhoods {{Mumbai-geo-stub}}