A boot polisher on the Sion railway station platform

Sion (Marathi: शीव) is a suburb of Mumbai.In 1543, the Portuguese took possession of the islands of Bombay by force. The Portuguese gave the Jesuit priests the sole ownership of some of these islands. The Jesuits built a Chapel on the hill (near the present day railway station) and named it after Mount Zion (Sion) in Jerusalem. It is also the name of a railway station on the Mumbai suburban railway on the Central Railway line. The Marathi name is a corruption of the word Shiva, which means boundary or limit. In the 17th century the village formed the boundary between Mumbai and Salsette Island.

See also

• Sion Fort

Coordinates: 19°02′N 72°51′E / 19.033, 72.85

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