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Taj Mahal Palace Hotel

Taj Mahal Palace Hotel

Also known as Taj Palace Hotel

Year

1903

Style

Indo-Saracenic

Type

hotel

The Taj Mahal Palace Hotel opened on 16 December 1903, commissioned by industrialist Jamsetji Tata as the first major Indian-owned luxury hotel in the city. Sitaram Khanderao Vaidya and D. N. Mirza designed the original Indo-Saracenic…

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  1. 1903

    Original construction

    Sitaram Khanderao Vaidya, D. N. Mirza

  2. 1972

    Taj Mahal Tower

    Twenty-storey modernist tower addition built on the site of the demolished Green's Hotel, behind the original Indo-Saracenic palace and facing the Gateway of India.

    Daralius Batliwala, Rustom Patell

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