Tuesday, 2 November 2010

KALYAN CITY



ABOUT KALYAN CITY :-

 


After the Khilji sack of Deogiri, the Yadavas fled into the Konkan region and set up their base at Mahikawati, modern Mahim; Kalyan was a part of the brief Yadava state of Mahikawati. Mahikawati was conquered by the Muslims who set up petty coastal principalities.
As a major entrepot, Kalyan soon became, by 530-535 CE the seat of a Nestorian bishop[1]. The Churches of South Asia which were ecclesiastically dependent on the Church of Assyria and Chaldea in MesopotamiaIraq, lands then subject to the Persian Empire (Sassanians), early fell with it into the Nestorian Schism and used Middle Persian as the liturgical language. The Konkan, Tulunad and Malabar Coasts of South Asia are marked by stone crosses with Pahlavi inscriptions. or modern
During the Middle Ages, Pope John XX, headquartered at Avignon, sent a group of five missionaries to the Mongol Emperor at Khanbalik, modern Beijing in China, under the Dominican Fray Giordano or Jordanus. On their way, they picked up a novice, Demetrius, from West Asia and then travelled through South Asia, succoring the Nestorian Christians there, who were hard pressed by the Muslims. Giordano left his colleagues at Kalyan and travelled back north to Gujarat. During his absence, the Muslim governor and Qazi of ThaneSopara and buried them there. The Muslim Arab sultan of Gujarat, when informed of this development, summoned his governor of Thane and the Qazi; the Qazi fled but the governor was executed for his actions that militated against international commerce. When a later missionary, Odoric de Pordenone (fr:Odoric de Pordenone), visited Thane in 1324-1325, he collected their remains and moved on to China. summoned the missionaries and demanded submission to Islam; when they refused, they were murdered (1321). The local Nestorians collected their remains and buried them; Giordano, on his return, took them to
In the later Middle Ages, Kalyan was occupied by the Ahmednagar Sultanate, an indigenous dynasty founded by a man forcibly converted from a Hindu Brahmin family as a child, and then by the Bijapur Sultanate, an Indo-Turkish state in the Deccan in the 16th century, and later by the Mughals under the Emperor Shah Jahan, who fortified the city in the mid-17th century. It came under Portuguese sway for a brief time before being re-conquered by the Muslim allies of the Mughals, and was later conquered by the Marathas, who made it one of their strategic centers because it guarded the entrance to Mumbai and the western coast of India. Kashibai, wife of the Peshwa Bajirao was born in Kalyan. About eighty years after the Maratha conquest, the Maratha Empire was forced to cede it to the British and Kalyan became part of the Bombay Presidency, a British India province that became Bombay state after India's independence in 1947.
In the Middle Ages, when Kalyan was occupied by the Ahmednagar Sultanate, they gave name as Gulshanabad and in the time of Maratha it was changed to Kalyan.
Kaali Masjid : It was founded by Mughal emperor Akbar. It is located on the bank of the lake called as "Kaala Talav".
Durgadi Fort (किल्ले दुर्गाडी): It is not known when the Durgadi fort was constructed. The wall of the fort along the top of the inner bank of the ditch, and, near the north end, had a gateway known as the Delhi or Killyacha Darwaja, which was entered by a path along the top of the north side of the town wall. Inside the fort there was a low belt of ground, about the same level, as the top of the ditch, with a shallow pond not far from the Delhi gate. The remains of the pond are still visible, in the north-west corner the fort rose in a small flat-topped mound about thirty feet high. On the top of the mound, on the west crest which overhangs and is about 100 feet (30 m) above the river, is the prayer wall or idgah, sixty-four feet long, thirteen high and seven thick, which is now in a dilapidated condition. This doubtful wall is said to be of the old Durga temple wall and is thickly plastered. It is said that near the east crest of the mound there was a mosque, but no remains of it can be traced. About thirty to forty yards of the idgah was a round cut stone wall of great depth, eleven feet in diameter with a wall two feet eleven inches thick at the top, which has now completely, collapsed except the basement of the wall. Under the Marathas (1760–72), a new gate about 150 feet (46 m) to the south of the Ganesh gate was opened near the mansion of Ramji Mahadeo Biwalkar, the Peshwa s Governor. In the citadel of the fort Marathas built a small wooden temple of Durgadevi behind the mosque, and called the fort Durgadi Killa in honour of the goddess, a name which it still bears. They also converted the mosque into Ramji's temple. The fort measures 220 feet (67 m) in length and somewhat less in breadth. Under the English the fort wall was dismantled and stones carried to build the Kalyan and Thane piers and a dwelling for the customs inspector in the west of the Kalyan fort. The gate to the north-west is almost the only trace of the fort wall, which is of rough stone masonry. During 1876 the original idol of the goddess Durga was stolen.
 Kalyan was a port for more than two millennia until siltation and the rise of Mumbai eclipsed it and its sister ports, Sopara, Thane, Vasai, etc. The port was ruled by the Maurya and Gupta Empires of North India and later was part of a petty Konkan principality vassal to the Yadava Empire of Deogiri. Extensive ruins in Kalyan indicate the city's former magnificence. Kalyan Creek Image:170440263 bbd46361ee o..jpg After the Khilji sack of Deogiri, the Yadavas fled into the Konkan region and set up their base at Mahikawati, modern Mahim; Kalyan was a part of the brief Yadava state of Mahikawati. Mahikawati was conquered by the Muslims who set up petty coastal principalities.
As a major entrepot, Kalyan soon became, by 530-535 A.D. the seat of a Nestorian bishop ([1]). The Churches of South Asia which were ecclesiastically dependent on the Church of Assyria and Chaldea in Mesopotamia or modern Iraq, lands then subject to the Persian Empire (Sassanians), early fell with it into the Nestorian Schism and used Pahlavi as the liturgical language. The Konkan, Tulunad and Malabar Coasts of South Asia are marked by stone crosses with Pahlavi inscriptions.
During the Middle Ages, Pope John XX, headquartered at Avignon, sent a group of five missionaries to the Mongol Emperor at Khanbalik, modern Beijing in China, under the Dominican Fray Giordano or Jordanus. On their way, they picked up a novice, Demetrius, from West Asia and then travelled through South Asia, succoring the Nestorian Christians there, who were hard pressed by the Muslims. Giordano left his colleagues at Kalyan and travelled back north to Gujarat. During his absence, the Muslim governor and qazi of Thane summoned the missionaries and demanded submission to Islam; when they refused, they were murdered (1321). The local Nestorians collected their remains and buried them; Giordano, on his return, took them to Sopara and buried them there. The Muslim Arab sultan of Gujarat, when informed of this development, summoned his governor of Thane and the Qazi; the Qazi fled but the governor was executed for his actions that militated against international commerce. When a later missionary, Oderic of Pordenone ([2]), visited Thane in 1324-1325, he collected their remains and moved on to China.
The Martyrs of Thane were canonized by Pope Leo XIII and are Saints Thomas of Tolentino, James of Padua, Peter of Siena and Demetrius of Tiflis.
                    In the later Middle Ages, Kalyan was occupied by the Ahmednagar Sultanate, an indigenous dynasty founded by a man forcibly converted from a Hindu Brahmin family as a child, and then by the Bijapur Sultanate, an Indo-Turkish state in the Deccan in the 1500s, and later by the Mughals under the Emperor Shah Jahan, who fortified the city in the mid-1600s. It came under Portuguese sway for a brief time before being re-conquered by the Muslim allies of the Mughals, and was later conquered by the Marathas, who made it one of their strategic centers because it guarded the entrance to Mumbai and the western coast of India. Kashibai, wife of the Peshwa Bajirao was born in Kalyan. About eighty years after the Maratha conquest, the Maratha Empire was forced to cede it to the British and Kalyan became part of the Bombay Presidency, a British India province that became Bombay state after India's independence in 1947. In the Middle Ages, when kalyan was occupied by the Ahmednagar Sultanate, they gave name as Gulshanabad and in the time of Maratha it was changed to Kalyan.
Kaali Masjid : It was founded by Mughal emporer Akbar the great. It is located to on the bank of the lake called as "Kaala Talav".
                    Durgadi Fort It is not known as to when the Durgadi fort was constructed. The wall of the fort along the top of the inner bank of the ditch, and, near the north end, had a gateway known as the Delhi or Killyacha Darwaja, which was entered by a path along the top of the north side of the town wall. Inside the fort there was a low belt of ground, about the same level, asd the top of the ditch, with a shallow pond not far from the Delhi gate. The remains of the pond are still visible, in the north-west corner the fort rose in a small flat-topped mound about thrity feet high. On the top of the mound, on the west crest which overhangs and is about 100 feet above the river, is the prayer wall or idgah, sixty-four feet long, thirteen high and seven thick, which is now in a dilapidated condition. This doubtful wall is said to be of the old Durga temple wall and is thickly plastered. It is said that near the east crest of the mound there was a mosque, but no remains of it can be traced. About thirty to forty yards of the idgah was a round cut stone wall of great depth, eleven feet in diameter with a wall two feet eleven inches thick at the top, which has now completely, collapsed except the basement of the wall. Under the Marathas (1760-72), a new gate about 150 feet to the south of the Ganesh gate was opened near the mansion of Ramji Mahadeo Biwalkar, the Peshwa s Governor. In the citadel of the fort Marathas built a small wooden temple of Durgadevi behind the mosque, and called the fort Durgadi Killa in honour of the goddess, a name which it still bears. They also converted the mosque into Ramji s temple. The fort measures 220 feet in leagth and somewhat less in breadth. Under the English the fort wall was dismantled and stones carried to build the Kalyan and Thane piers and a dwelling for the customs inspector in the west of the Kalyan fort. The gate to the north-west is almost the only trace of the fort wall, which is of rough stone masonry. During 1876 the original idol of the goddess Durga was stolen. The other idol was placed during the last decade of the 19th century. The present fort as well as the present Durga temple was renovated (jitnoddhar), by the Kalyan municipality on 15 December 1974. A new idol of goddess Durga made if Panchadhatu (five sacred metals) was installed by Shri Gajanan Maharaj and Shri Annasaheb Pattekar of Thane on the same date. The idol is four-armed, three and half feet in height, with a lion resting at its back. To the right of idol is the old idol. The municipality has constructed a new gate 35 feet high and with four towers. There has also been laid a beautiful garden which surrounds the fort. The fort which has now more or less become a picnic spot gives an excellent view of Retibunder, the creek, the Bhiwandi bridge, the groves near and afar and the hills to the north of the fort.
In and before July 1946 there was a large military transit camp near Kalyan.
Kalyan is a city in the part of the Konkan (or "Kokan") region included in Maharashtra state, and a major railway junction in the vicinity of Mumbai, India.

The city has been combined with its neighbour township of Dombivli to form the City Corporation of Kalyan-Dombivli.

It is considered a part of the Greater Mumbai metropolitan agglomeration, along with New Mumbai and the cities of Bhiwandi, Thane, Ulhasnagar, Karjat and the Vasai-Virar region.
 Kalyan city is located on the lower course of the Ulhas River with access to the Arabian Sea, via its two estuaries or creeks, the Thane Creek and the Vasai Creek. Kalyan is 48 km (30 mi) north-east of Mumbai. Overcrowding in Mumbai and incentives from the government to develop areas outside of Mumbai have attracted industrial business as well as industrial employees to Kalyan.
 Kalyan was also considered at one time as one of the best places to live in the neighborhood of Mumbai, as it is far away from the pollution of the main city.

 Kalyan Junction is a very important railway station for suburban travel as well as for long distance trains. The suburban or metropolitan railway passenger transport line coming in from Mumbai splits into two at Kalyan Junction, one heads south-east for Karjat and Khopoli towards Lonavla, Mahabaleshwar and Pune, the other heads north-east for Kasara towards Nashik.

On the eastern side of the city is a large industrial complex where electrical equipment, rayon, and dyes and other chemicals are manufactured. There are also a large number of textile-based cottage industries.
The city has a beautiful township which goes by the name "GODREJ HILL" .The complex overlooks the kalyan creek and built atop a hill blanketed by greenery. Godrej Properties had undertaken this project two decades ago and today it has created enormous real estate value in the neighbourhood. Among the new constructions in the housing complex, Angel Co-Operative Housing Soceity stands apart beacause of the magnamity and grandeur it excudes.

Attractions in Kalyan

  1. Metro Junction Mall
  2. Durgadi Killa (Fort) of the Shivaji Era.
  3. Akshat MahaGanpati Mandir (Peshwa Temple)
  4. Pokharan Ganpati, Parnaka
  5. Kala Talav, Kalyan
  6. HajiMalang Dargah
  7. Acharya Atre Rang Mandir
  8. Ganesh Ghat
  9. Doodh Naka
  1. Shri Gajanan Maharaj Temple, Lonadh
  2. Birla Mandir, Shahad, (One of the most beautiful temples, dating back centuries and a must visit, currently maintained by the Birla Group)
  3. Siddhivinayak Mahaganapati Temple - Titwala 15 km
  4. Malshej Ghat - 95 km

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[edit] Parts of Kalyan

[edit] Current Developments in Kalyan

[edit] Timber Processing Zone near Kalyan

[edit] Kalyan International Airport near Kalyan-Nevali

As a result of the recent objections being raised by the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests on the current proposed location of the Navi Mumbai International Airport near Kopra Panvel area, because the construction of the airport would involve reclamation of low-lying areas in an ecologically fragile zone as well as destruction of several hectares of mangroves, other locations are being actively being considered, which includes the one off village Nevali near Kalyan-Ambernath 55 km away from the current airport in Mumbai. There exists an old and abandoned air-strip of World War II era and the Union Defence Ministry owns the 1,500 acres (6.1 km2) of land on which it is located. The proposal is now centred around those 1,500 acres (6.1 km2) of land. If the current location at Kopra Panvel does not go through, then the Kalyan-Newali location would be considered for a future Kalyan International Airport which would serve as a much needed second International airport for the Mumbai Metropolitan region.

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Kalyan
—  City  —

Coordinates 19.25°N 73.13°E / 19.25°N 73.13°E / 19.25; 73.13Coordinates: 19.25°N 73.13°E / 19.25°N 73.13°E / 19.25; 73.13
Country  India
State Maharashtra
District(s) Thane
Nearest city Dombivli
Parliamentary constituency Kalyan
Assembly constituency Kalyan
Population • Density 1,800,000 • 72,000 /km2 (186,479 /sq mi)
Literacy 100%
Time zone IST (UTC+5:30)
Area 25 square kilometres (9.7 sq mi
Shiva Temple - Ambernath

      The township of Ambernath got its name from the famous Shiva   temple.   The  temple in  Ambernath,   which   traces its origins to the Saka period (982 or 1060 ad)
is perhaps the oldest ! shrine  in the coastal  region  of Maharashtra   dedicated   to   LordShiva, the destroyer of evil.
      The construction of the temple started during the reign of the Chittorraja, King of the Shilahar dynasty (1020-1035 ad). It was completed by his brother Mambaniraj, in the year 1061 ad.

Khopoli

         Khopoli is the lovely place for Trekking. Some of the interesting places are Duke's Nose, Zenith Waterfall. It is surrounded with Mountains, Greenery, Small Springs and Waterfalls.
         The famous Ganpat temple of Pali is situated at half an hours drive from Khopoli.

Durgadi Fort

         The fort stiil rings with the scars of battles and booming canons. Surrounded by water, guarding Kalyan, is the
Durgadi fort. Kalyan was, a strategically located, major port along with Thane. Every king dreamt of owning the port, as it would mean access to the commerce element that came with the port.

Haji Malang Dargah

           The Dargah, located atop Haji Malang mountain, is said to be 750-900 years old. Believed to be the tomb of Haji Abdul Rehman, an Arab Missionary, the place is well attended by people of all religions. People belonging to all communities take the blessings of the deity, also known as Malang Baba. Located at malangFortShrine is located at Malang gad, 13 kms. From Kaiyan. Malangad is not connected either by road or by telephone. From Kalyan, buses regularly ply to the foot of the hill leading to the Dargah of baba Malang. From there, a beaten & frequented track leads to the top, but to avoid the crowd, trackers are advised to alight from the bus one stop before the Haji Malang stop. gad near Kalyan, it is very popular with one and all.            This
Khidkaleswar Temple

           Located a few Kms. From Dombivli, at Khidkaii village, Khidkaleshwar temple is known to be one of the earliest Temples in the area. Popular as a temple of Lord Shiva, the temple is named after the village. The temple was said to have been constructed ages ago,by Pandavas. The story goes that Dharmaraj Yudhishtir wanted to offer Prayers to lord Shiva, when they were on Vanwas. Thus, when he sat to pray at the site. The Shiv Ling & a Pond came into existence. The Shiva Ling and Pond adjoining it was discovered by the Villagers.


Kondeshwar

         This is a well- known waterfall. Adding to the charm here is the rocky path that gives way to the overflowing water. Generally, the
water level here is not high, and it is thus an ideal place for the family and kids. But one has to be very cautious. But it is advisable that you keep away from liquor, as white enjoying yourself here, you need to be a hundred percent alert. Even a walk around Kondeshwar is located near bhoj village, 18 kms. Away from Ambernath and about 10 krns. From Badlapur.
          To get to Kondeshwar, you can either hop on ST bus from Badlapur, going to Bhoj village. The winding roads with greenery and mountains on both sides are a very pleasant site. Vehicles can be taken right till the Water Falls. The other way to get here is by a Richshaw from Badlapur.

Shivji Temple - Ulhasnager

Shivji Temple - 1Km from Vithalwadi Station. & 2 Km from Ulhasnagar Station. 33 Feet Lord Shiva Statue. Biggest HolyCaves of Shiv Shakti in Maharashtra. Must to visit holy place in Ulhasnagar. Shiv Khori, Jai Baba Ambernath, Ice Linge
for full year. Mata Vaishudevi, Nainadevi, Eight Ashtivinayak, Statue of Shirdi Sai Baba as alike Shirdi.
Matheran

          Matheran as a Peaceful Picnic Spot Needs no introduction, but its real charm lies in the trek to the top. The most  
obvious route is through Neral Matheran tarred road (11km.) Other routes are more enjoyable. For starters, try Garbut point. The 13 kms climb takes trekkers up through easily navigable mud tracks. However, the last stretc is a little tricky. If the idea of climbing up water falls and traversing forests excites you, try the one tree hill route, which is a litter tougher, but a lot more enjoyable. Start the track from chowk to Matheran goes up Shivaji ladder (10 km.) from Neral Station, walking along the railway tracks leads to the route to peb fort.One could either end if there of climb upto panorama point on top. For the romantic sorts there is also a Mini Train from Neral to Matheran.

Birla Mandir

          
On this Hilock adorning lush green lawns sprawling Garden and Marbled attract Good Crowd of visitors on Holiday.

Titwala Temple

         This Titwala Ganesha temple is part of the Eight Famous Ganesha Temples in Maharashtra.
         Three stations from Kalyan on a Kasara, Asangaoc or a Titwala train. The temple is almost
3 Km. from the Titwala Station and you can opt for a rickshaw, a Horse-drawn Tanga or Trek. It is twenty minute walk.

Vajreshwari

         Vajreshwari temple located between Bhiwandi and Vasai situated in Vadaili village is one place that you must visit.
         It is famous for its hot water springs. Hot water springs are also at Akloli,
Kakner there are very holy places and picnic spots too. Swamy Nityananda's Samadhi mandir, muktanand ashram are in ganeshpuri. Vajreshwari is name of godess, Chimajiappa her fortified temple after winning vasai fort.
         The Vajreshwari temple is accessible by state transport Buses from Thane Kalyan

Malshej Ghat


          Natural scenes, waterfalls give look that it is heaven on the earth. It has recently become famous for One
Day Monsoon Trip. There is 12 kms ghat and tourists visit to see the Flammingo bird.
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