The amazing Flora Fountain sculpture is located in the city of Mumbai. Mumbai city in Hutama Chowk, which means "Martyrs' Square", which is located in the southern part of the city near the famous Fort business district. is located in the southern part of the city near the famous Fort business district.
The fountain was built in 1864 and depicts the ancient Roman goddess Flora. The fountain was initiated by the Agro-Horticultural Society of Western India, Norman Shaw was the chief architect for the project. The fountain was originally named in honour of the then governor of Bombay, Sir Bartley Frere, during whose time the city was being developed at a very rapid pace. But it was later given a new name - in honour of the beautiful goddess of flowers and spring, Flora, whose figure crowns the entire the entire structure. The fountain was originally to be installed in the Victoria Gardens as part of the part of the architectural composition of Abundance, but the final decision on the fountain's location of the fountain was decided in favour of Dabadhai Naoroji Street. The fountain was installed at the site of the Church Gate, one of the three entrances to the ruined Old City Fort. Old Town.
The Flora Fountain is a remarkable sculptural composition, at the the very top of which is a statue of the goddess Flora, carved by James Forsyth from what is known as "Portland stone", a type of limestone, quarried in one of the south-west counties of England. The composition includes figures of beautiful women, mythical animals, dolphins, fish, seashells.
In the same square, opposite the Fountain in 1960, the Monument to the Monument to the Martyrs, dedicated to all those who died in the struggle for independence, and depicting the figures of two patriots holding a burning torch.
