<P> The Gateway of India is located on the waterfront at Apollo Bunder area at the end of Chhatrapati Shivaji Marg in South Mumbai and overlooks the Arabian Sea . The monument has also been referred to as the Taj Mahal of Mumbai, and is the city's top tourist attraction . </P> <P> The Gateway of India was built to commemorate the visit of King George V and Queen Mary to Mumbai, prior to the Delhi Durbar in December 1911 . However, they only got to see a cardboard model of the monument, since the construction did not begin till 1915 . The foundation stone was laid on March 31, 1913 by the governor of Bombay, Sir George Sydenham Clarke with the final design of George Wittet sanctioned on March 31, 1914 . </P> <P> The land on which the Gateway was built on was previously a crude jetty, used by the fishing community which was later renovated and used as a landing place for British governors and other prominent people . In earlier times, it would have been the first structure that visitors arriving by boat in Mumbai would have seen . </P> <P> Between 1915 and 1919, work proceeded at Apollo Bundar (Port) to reclaim the land on which the gateway and the new sea wall would be built . The foundations were completed in 1920 and construction was finished in 1924 . The gateway was opened on December 4, 1924 by the Viceroy, the Earl of Reading . </P>

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