Sunday, June 28, 2009

BAÇAIM, BASSEIN, VASAI PORTUGESES FORT 1560 BOMBAY NOW IN RUINS


RUINS OF THE FORT AND CHURCH WAITING FOR RESTORATION
Baçaim (Vasai): fortified town ruins, town walls (1550-1582) with 10 bastions well preserved (ruins of : Nossa Senhora da Vida (1535), Franciscan Church and Convent of Santo Antonio, Augustinian Church and Convent, Jesuits Church and Convent (1561), Church and Convent of the Dominicans, Church Matriz of St. Jose (1546), Camara, Senado, Chapel of St. John Baptist), fortress or citadel of Sao Sebastiao (1536-1539).
The Jesuit Church is currently (1/2007) under renovation and will soon be the first complete church of Bassein.

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