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Food at Club House Restaurant, Fort Kochi.

Club House Restaurant

French omelettes at breakfast, late-night food when the rest has closed.

Restaurant · Kapithan House, Princess Street, Fort Kochi

Pigeons at Dharmanath Jain Temple, Mattancherry.

Dharmanath Jain Temple

Thousands of pigeons descend for grain around 12:15 daily.

Place of worship · Gujarati Road, Mattancherry

St. Francis Church, Fort Kochi, the oldest European church in India.Ranjith Siji, 19 September 2016, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.

St. FRANCIS CSI CHURCH

Vasco da Gama was buried here for fourteen years; the empty slab remains.

Church · Saint Francis Church Road, Fort Kochi

The Kaycee Corporation warehouse in Mattancherry in 1976. A painted board above the open loading bay reads KAYCEE CORPORATION, SPICES | DRY FRUITS. A man stacks sacks onto a truck at the kerb and a bicycle leans by the door.Courtesy Kaycee Corporation

Kaycee Corporation

Ceylon cinnamon and cassia on the same shelf, and cashews graded by the number.

Shop · Mattancherry

The synagogue's raised reading platform draped in gold cloth, seen beneath a large crystal chandelier, with the gilded torah ark against the far wall.Rainer Halama, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Paradesi Synagogue

Hundreds of hand-painted blue-and-white Chinese tiles, no two alike.

Synagogue

Vine-covered shopfront with a round sign reading 'idha'

Peter Celli Street

Named for petercelie, Dutch for parsley — Fort Kochi's literal old street names.

Street