Beautiful place for photograph

Built between the 1630s and the end of the 17th Century, Mount Poinsur’s history goes back to 1544 and Fr Antonio do Porto, the founder of the Congregation of the Missionary Brothers of St. Francis of Assisi in India and the monastery here. He and his companions, the Portuguese pioneer evangelisers of Bombay, Salsette, and Bassein Islands built the Church of Our Lady of the Conception, a Franciscan monastery, and a college for the indigenous people in Borivali. Fr Antonio do Porto lies buried in Mount Poinsur.In 1739, Mount Poinsur was captured by the Marathas. The Friars dispersed; the church, monastery and college were plundered and burnt.A century and a half after the Maratha invasion, the site’s Franciscan heritage attracted Bros Paulus Moritz and Nicholas Hohn to bring the Order back to India and make Mount Poinsur the centre for all its national congregation activities. They put up a school, orphanage and rectory south of the Church in 1908, in so doing both hiding and protecting the hermitage and chapel in the decades that followed.