Haji Ali Dargah Mumbai
The mosque was built in 1431 in memory of a rich Muslim merchant, Sayyed Peer Haji Ali Shah Bukhari, who gave all his possessions to the poor before beginning their pilgrimage to Mecca . Hailing from Bukhara , in the ancient Persian Empire and now in Uzbekistan , Bukhari had traveled extensively among the Muslim countries of the fifteenth century, before settling in Bombay.
Located on a tiny islet just 500 meters from the coast at Lala Lajpatrai Marg near the heart of Mumbai it is reached over a stone causeway at low tide, or by boat at high tide.