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David Sassoon Library

Mumbai City district, India

David Sassoon Library
David Sassoon Library. Photo via Wikimedia Commons.

The David Sassoon Library and Reading Room is a famous library and heritage structure in Mumbai, India. The idea for a library to be situated in the center of the city came from Albert Sassoon, son of the famous Baghdadi Jewish philanthropist and businessman of the Sino-Indian opium trade, David Sassoon.

Library data from Wikidata (CC0). Summary from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

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