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Malad (Marathi:मालाड) is a suburb of Mumbai, India. It is also the name of the railway station on the Mumbai suburban railway on the Western Railway (India) railway line, located in the Malad suburb.

Contents 1 History 2 Demographics 3 Localities 4 Beaches

In 1880, Fr. Joseph Maria Braz de Souza, of the Principal family of Valnai (Orlem), a former chaplain of military forces at Satara from 1861 to 1886 built, at his own expense, a private chapel dedicated to our Lady of Lourdes at Orlem Village, then a hamlet of just about 12 families.In 1882, Bishop Meurin declared officially that this chapel, under the chaplainship of Fr. D’Souza was part of the Apostolate of Bombay and affiliated to the church of Our Lady of Assumption, Kandivli.In 1908 Fr. D’Souza was elevated to the dignity of CAMARIERE SEGREDO EXTRA URBEM to Pius X. He died in December 1912 and was buried in the sanctuary of the chapel that he built.In deference to the wishes of Msgr. J.M.B. D’Souza, in his will, that a priest from his family should be his successor, Fr. Justin D’Souza was lent by the Bishop of Daman to the Archdiocese of Bombay and appointed Chaplain at Orlem. He carried on the good work of Msgr. D’Souza and his brother Fr. Elias who bequeathed all his properties to the church. Fr. Justin built the first school, thus laying the foundations for the uplift of the Christian Community of Orlem. Through his efforts, Orlem was constituted a separate Parish, in a decree dated 2nd July 1916. Fr. Justin extended the church and was assisted in this effort by Mrs. Mary Magdalene D’Souza who financed the elevation for the choir. Fr. Justin also donated all his lands to the Archdiocese and, in fact, the Cardinal Gracias Colony developed on the land that Fr. Justin had donated for the welfare of Orlem.From these small but solid foundations, the following Parish Priests with their richness of experience, dedication and parochial care helped to raise Orlem to its present stature : Fr. Herman Mendes, Fr. Celestine Fonseca, Fr. Walter D’Souza, Msgr. Staney Pereira, Fr. Peter C. Gomes and Fr. Frank Noronha who ventured to start the construction of the new School Building in 1959.In the year 1976 Fr. Octavian Dias, worked hard to make possible a new extension to the school, a Parochial House and the new Church. Credit is, of course, due to the Parishioners and friends who had extended their co-operation through generous donations and, in particular, to Mr. Raymond H. D’Lima who as Chairman had indeed laboured hard to bring this project to its fruition and turn the dream of New Church into a reality.It was said at that time that “should the Catholicity in the hearts of the people grow,” the words of Bishop Meurin that “this Church will one day become a Cathedral”, may prove prophetic indeed ! This was said 28 years ago. Since the Solemn Inauguration of the new Church on Sunday 6th June 1976, by the then Rt. Rev. Dr, Simon Pimenta, Auxiliary Bishop of Bombay, much water has flown and so much has happened- not least being the huge rise in the catholic population (highest in the whole world in terms of per parish. In 1915, the St Anne's High School was established at Orlem. 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

Originally, much of the land in the west was owned by East Indian families and was used primarily for agriculture. In the 1970s many of them sold their lands to real estate developers.

There is a rare holy relic of Mother Mary that is on display at St Peter"s Jacobite Church, also called the Soonoro Church at Mith Chowky near Orlem. The relic, a piece of fabric believed to be part of the girdle worn by Mother Mary, is on view between September 1 and 8. The relic draw thousands of worshippers. The relic, also called a Soonoro or belt, was brought to Kerala from Syria in 1982 by the head of the Orthodox faith, Ignatius Zakka I. The Malad relic is a piece of that Soonoro.

The main artery of Malad Western side is the Marve Road that starts from SV Road is intersected by the linking road and finishes up to Madh Island Lands End. From this end you just need to cross by Ferry to reach Versova in minutes. You can find famous places that are on this road like the beautiful Laxmi Narayan Temple built by Dongre Maharaj, Orlem Church, Orlem Market, Link Road, Malvani intersection, Mith Chowki, St. Anthony's Church, INS Hamla of Navy for Training in Bridge building and Radar, this place is also called as a eye of Mumbai, Marve Beach (from here you can ferry to Essel World or Manori Beach), Erangal Beach (famous for film shootings), Old Portuguese Church, 5 star Hotel 'The Resort' at Aksa Beach and Madh Island where there is a large fishing village and a old settlement of the Koli community.

There is a market called Somwar (Monday) Bazaar which is located at Somwar Bazaar area or Chincholi area. This bazaar is active only on Monday's and the area is named after this bazaar. People from various parts of Maharashtra come here to sell their unique products.

ST.Joseph's High School is one of the best school's in Malad.Also an interesting fact is Orlem is one of highly Catholic dominated area in Mumbai. There are other good schools as well like St. Anne's School,Carmel of St. Joseph's High School girl's school run by the convent Nuns, Children's Academy in the East, Ryan's International, Fatima Devi also in the East.

Malvani is an area which is Muslim dominated.The population was the result of the government relocation from different parts of the Muslim localities. This was the worst hit area 92-93 riots. It also has a church which is a bus stop known as the Malvani Church Stop. On the north side of Malvani there is a huge industrial area called as Charcop.

There are many good areas which are quiet and mostly the people living in these areas are Maharashtrians, Christians, Gujarati's and Marwadi's. These areas are Adarsh Nagar, Evershine Nagar, Raheja Complex, Orlem Areas (Lourdes colony & Tank Lane), Mamlatdar Wadi, Liberty Garden, Ramchandralane. The famous festivals celebrated in Malad are Navrathri, Diwali, Christmas and Ganpathi. Near the post office at Ramchandralane there is SNDT womens college. This college is the best place for females of middle class to study. It offers various courses in various streams thereby trying to educate as many females as possible. There are regular events at this college and the ground is often leased out for marriages and parties.

Apart from the original Maharashtrian settlers, the suburb has a considerable population of Catholics, Gujaratis, South Indians, Marwaris and Punjabis. Real estate in the west is more expensive than in the east.

Currently there is a construction boom due to BPO spurts.

Major localities in Malad are Chincholi Bunder Road, Mind Space, Marve Road, Liberty Garden, Navy Nagar, Orlem. Sunder Nagar is on boarder of Malad and Goregaon.

Now a days happening place in Mumbai is Mind Space & Chincholi Bunder Road. On Chincholi bunder road we have Sangata Society visit formore information on Sangata Society http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sangata_society http://www.labdefamily.com/

Some of the major localities in Malad (West) are Orlem (originally called Valnai in Marathi), Evershine Nagar and Palm Court Complex.

Sunder Nagar is a locality in Malad that lies along the west side of Swami Vivekanand Road. The area was built up in the 1970s and is primarily composed of many housing complexes, typically 2 bedroom apartments. There are 3 schools, (Umedbhai Patel English School,Utkarsh Mandir and S. Radhakrishnan Vidyalaya), 1 college (Prahldrai Dalmia's Lions College) and a large garden in the limited area. The housing blocks are typically named alphabetically starting from A up to V. It borders Mandlik Nagar on the North and some defunct factories on the south.

Malad East has many popular housing colonies like Raheja Township, Govind Nagar, Mahindra Nagar and Pratap Nagar. Mahindra Nagar is a clean and green society, which was nominated as the 2nd most pollution free area in Mumbai by Eureka Forbes after Aarey Colony in Goregaon. Malad East has Daftary Road, which runs across from station on East up till Mumbai-Ahmedabad highway and this is one of the most congested roads in Mumbai suburbs. Malad East also boasts of quite a few old running schools such as Fatimadevi, Children's Academy, Nutan Vidyalay, Utkarsh Mandir, Sanskar Vidyalay. Fatimadevi English School established in 1953 is, one of the oldest educational institution in the Malad Suburb of Mumbai. Lots of great minds passed out from this institution. Children's Academy school has track record of maintaining 100% passing success at SSC board results.

Malad is fast becoming IT HUB with many BPO spurting. There are at least 7 malls and largest of them is INORBIT, voted one of the best mall in Mumbai. Inorbit Mall seemed the ultimate answer to Malad’s shopping problems.

The Aksa, Erangal and Marve beaches are within accessible distance from Malad.

• Aksa Beach
• Dana Paani
• Erangal Beach
• Madh Island & Madh Fort
• Manori Beach
• Marve Beach - Ferry Service to Manori

Malad
Next station south: Goregaon	Mumbai suburban railway : Western Railway		Next station north: Kandivali
	Stop Number:19	KM from starting:29.32

These are the stations on Western line of Mumbai suburban railway

Churchgate | Marine Lines | Charni Road | Grant Road | Mumbai Central | Mahalaxmi | Lower Parel | Elphinstone Road | Dadar | Matunga Road | Mahim Junction | Bandra | Khar Road | Santacruz | Vile Parle | Andheri | Jogeshwari | Goregaon | Malad | Kandivali | Borivali | Dahisar | Mira Road | Bhayandar | Naigaon | Vasai Road | Nala Sopara | Virar

Coordinates: 19°11′N 72°50′E / 19.183, 72.833