India Gate New Delhi

India Gate New Delhi The India Gate, (originally called the All India War Memorial), is a war memorial located astride the Rajpath,formerly called Kingsway.

India gate is a memorial to 82,000 soldiers of the undivided Indian Army who died in the period 1914–21 in the First World War, in France, Flanders, Mesopotamia, Persia, East Africa, Gallipoli and elsewhere in the Near and the Far East, and the Third Anglo-Afghan War. 13,300 servicemen's names, including some soldiers and officers from the United Kingdom, are inscribed on the gate.The India Gate,

even though a war memorial, evokes the architectural style of the triumphal arch like the Arch of Constantine, outside the Colosseum in Rome, and is often compared to the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, and the Gateway of India in Mumbai. It was designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens.

22/11/2017

The India Gate, (originally called the All India War Memorial), is a war memorial located astride the Rajpath,formerly called Kingsway.

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Rajpath, India Gate
New Delhi
110001

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Monday 7am - 10:30pm
Tuesday 7am - 10:30pm
Wednesday 7am - 10:30pm
Thursday 7am - 10:30pm
Friday 7am - 10:30pm
Saturday 7am - 10:30pm
Sunday 7am - 10:30pm

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