Gateway of India, Mumbai, India
The Gateway of India was built to celebrate and honor the visit of King George V and Queen Mary to India for their formal proclamation as Emperor and Empress of India at the Delhi Durbar in December 1911. The foundation stone for the monument was laid by Sir George Sydenham Clarke, then Governor of Bombay (now Mumbai), on March 31, 1911.
The final design of Scottish architect George Wittet was sanctioned on March 31, 1914. Initial work to reclaim land for the Gateway and a new seawall at the Apollo Bunder started in 1915. Following the completion of land reclamation in 1919, actual construction began and was completed in 1924. The formal inauguration of the Gateway of India was done by the Viceroy of India, Rufus Isaacs, Earl of Reading, on December 4, 1924.
