The heritage mosques of Cochin

Cochin waterway with a fleet of thoni delivering goods, circa 1950.
©Krishnan Nair Studio / Published in ‘Mosques of Cochin’ by Patricia Tusa Fels.
Until recently, all the products of the region - spices, wood produce, rice, bamboo - arrived by thoni, the country boats, at the portside 'godowns', or warehouses. Foreign goods arrived from China, Southeast Asia and Arabia. The Malabar coast served as an entrepôt for the Middle East and Southeast

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Cochin waterway with a fleet of thoni delivering goods, circa 1950.
©Krishnan Nair Studio / Published in ‘Mosques of Cochin’ by Patricia Tusa Fels.
Until recently, all the products of the region - spices, wood produce, rice, bamboo - arrived by thoni, the country boats, at the portside 'godowns', or warehouses. Foreign goods arrived from China, Southeast Asia and Arabia. The Malabar coast served as an entrepôt for the Middle East and Southeast Asia, a hinge between the western and eastern ends of the Indian Ocean.
Text © Patricia Tusa Fels. Reproduced by permission of Mapin Publishing. 

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