Packers And Movers in Malad

Malad :

In the 19th century, the Orlem (also known as Valnai) was a hamlet of just about 12 families in Malad.[citation needed] In 1880, Fr. Joseph Maria Braz de Souza built a private chapel dedicated to our Lady of Lourdes at Orlem. In 1882, the chapel was officially declared a part of the Apostolate of Bombay and affiliated to the church of Our Lady of Assumption,Kandivali.
Later, Fr. Justin built the first school, the St Anne's High School, in 1915.
Through his efforts, Orlem was constituted a separate parish, in a decree dated July 2, 1916. Other traditionally ancient settlements in Malad were villages occupied by the local East-Indian Community who are known to be the original native inhabitants of Mumbai.
These villages include Kharodi, Rathodi, Malwani, Marve and so on. All of these above villages are recognised as integral part of St. Anthony's Church/Parish which is way more older than the history of Our Lady of Lourdes Church/Parish.
This can also be seen by noticing the ancient architectural structure of St. Anthony's Church, Malwani.
Often the term 'Malwani' is mistaken to be the area which is the stretch between BMC Colony Gate No. 1 to Gate No. 8 and further extending to Mhada but factually it is only supposed to be BMC Colony which was populated recently on the outskirts of ancient Malwani area which used to have mangroves, salt-pans and Agricultural land belonging to the local east-Indians of Kharodi Village.
Whereas the real Malwani Village is till date located at the place we now call as Malwani Church on Marve Road. Many families like Koli, Vaity,Bhandari, Keni are old residents.
In 1934, Bombay Talkies, the first movie company to be founded in India, was established in Malad by Himanshu Rai and Devika Rani. In 1955, St.Joseph's School was established by Ms. Bertha Pereira. Originally, much of the land in the west was owned by East Indian Catholic families and was used primarily for agriculture. In the 1970s many of them sold their lands to real estate developers.