Sion, Mumbai

Sion Sheev
Neighborhood
K. J. Somaiya Institute of Engineering & Information Technology near Everard Nagar, Sion
Sion
Coordinates: 19.04°N 72.86°E / 19.04; 72.86
Country	India
State	Maharashtra
District	Mumbai City
City	Mumbai
Government
• Type	Municipal Corporation
• Body	Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC)
Languages
• Official	Marathi
Time zone	UTC+5:30 (IST)
Area code	022
ISO 3166 code	IN-MH

Sion (/ˈsaːjən/; IAST: Śīv [ʃiːʋ]) is a neighbourhood of Mumbai. In the 17th century the village formed the boundary between Mumbai and Salsette Island. The British named it marking the end of the city. The name remained even after Mumbai was joined to the Salsette and extended up to Mulund. One of the local historical places in Sion is a hilltop garden commonly known as Sion Fort or Sheevon Killa in the Marathi language.

History

In 1543, the Portuguese took possession of the largely uninhabited islands of Bombay, naming it Sião, after a biblical hill in Israel.^[1] The Portuguese gave the Jesuit priests the sole ownership of some of these islands. The Jesuits then built a chapel on the hill near the present-day railway station and named it after Mount Zion (Sion) in Jerusalem.^{[citation needed]}

Education

Sion is also a home to many educational institutes, including:

• Ayurved College Sion
• K. J. Somaiya Institute Of Engineering & Information Technology
• Shiv Shikshan Sanstha's School (Eng. Med.)
• SIES College of Commerce and Economics
• SIES College of Arts, Science, and Commerce
• Padmabhushan Vasantdada Patil Pratishthan's College of Engineering
• K. J. Somaiya Medical College & Research Centre.^[2]
• Lokmanya Tilak Municipal Medical College and General Hospital
• Our Lady Of Good Counsel High School

Notable former residents

• Mithun Chakraborthy
• Sadhana
• Boney Kapoor
• Akshay Kumar
• Johnny Lever
• K.N.Singh

See also

• K. J. Somaiya Institute Of Engineering & Information Technology
• Sion Fort
• Our Lady of Good Counsel High School, Mumbai

References

1. D'Cunha, Jose Gerson (1900). "IV The Portuguese Period". The Origins of Bombay (3 ed.). Bombay: Asian Educational Services. p. 265. ISBN 81-206-0815-1. Retrieved 4 January 2009.
2. "KJ Somaiya Medical College and Research Centre". Retrieved 31 January 2013.