Badakabarastan
Badakabarastan (Eng. Large Graveyard) is a Muslim cemetery in the Marine Lines area of south Mumbai in India. One of the largest Muslim cemeteries in the country, it is also the final resting place of a number of icons from the Indian film industry.
Badakabarastan is bordered by the Chandanwadi Hindu crematorium and a Parsi cemetery.
Notable interments
- Allahaj Sheikh Mohammed Ibrahim Kaskar, father of Dawood Ibrahim
- Mehboob Khan, film director
- Nargis, actress
- Yakub H. Rizvi, actor and director
- Haji Mohammed Sabir, brother of Dawood Ibrahim
- Suraiya, actress
- Meeraji, famous Urdu poet (1912–1949)
- Yakub Memon, hanged for his role in 1993 Bombay bombings
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