The heritage mosques of Cochin

The seaside today with Chinese fishing nets in the background.
©Donald Fels / Published in ‘Mosques of Cochin’ by Patricia Tusa Fels
It was with the arrival of Vasco da Gama and the Portuguese attempt to control all overseas commerce that violence entered the trading world of Malabar. From the sixteenth to the nineteenth century, change swirled around the people of the coast. The Portuguese were replaced by the Dutch and then the English. Fort

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The seaside today with Chinese fishing nets in the background.
©Donald Fels / Published in ‘Mosques of Cochin’ by Patricia Tusa Fels
It was with the arrival of Vasco da Gama and the Portuguese attempt to control all overseas commerce that violence entered the trading world of Malabar. From the sixteenth to the nineteenth century, change swirled around the people of the coast. The Portuguese were replaced by the Dutch and then the English. Fort Cochin, at the northern tip of a peninsula, became the first European settlement in India, and one of the few with a history of Portuguese, Dutch and English presence.

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