Basilica of Our Lady of the Mount, Bandra

Mount St Mary Church
Basilica of Our Lady of the Mount
19°2′48″N 72°49′21″E / 19.04667°N 72.82250°E / 19.04667; 72.82250
Location	Bandra, Bombay (Mumbai).
Country	India
Denomination	Roman Catholic
History
Status	Minor Basilica
Dedication	St Mary
Architecture
Functional status	Active
Completed	Rebuilt 1904
Specifications
Number of spires	2
Administration
Archdiocese	Archdiocese of Bombay
Clergy
Archbishop	Cardinal Oswald Gracias
Rector	Bishop John Rodrigues Rev Fr Michael Goveas

Officially, the Basilica of Our Lady of the Mount, colloquially known as Mount Bandra and Mount St Mary Church; is a basilica (shrine) of the Roman Catholic Church, located at the Bandra neighbourhood of Bombay (Mumbai), India.^[1]

The festival of the nativity of St Mary, also known as Holy Marymas or the Bandra Fest, is celebrated here on the 8th day of September: the auspicious occasion of the birth of the virgin-mother of Jesus Christ. The annual feast is followed by a week-long fair or fête known in the northern Konkan region as the "Bandra fair"; it is thronged by lakhs of tourists, pilgrims and devotees every year.^[2][3][4] Many visitors come to Mount St Mary Church in order to make their mannat (wish) come true.^[4]

Pope Pius XII granted a decree of canonical coronation to the shrine's reverenced Marian icon on 21 October 1954, both signed and notarised by Cardinal Giovanni Battista Montini of the Sacred Congregation of Rites. The statue of the Madonna and the Prince of peace was crowned in a ceremony on 5 December 1954, by the late Cardinal Valerian Gracias.