Bhavani Mandap

Bhavani Mandap is a historic building situated inside the walled metropolis center of Kolhapur in southern Maharashtra, India. It is positioned close to the well-known and mammoth Mahalaxmi Temple on the west. It is a royal palace of the Maharaja of Kolhapur. It was a durbar of the Chhatrapati Maharaja. Bhavani Mandap changed into an critical assembly venue in previous years. It housed the offices of diverse court docket officials and became centre of many celebrations. It additionally noticed a famous murder in the significant courtyard. The region has the nostalgic appeal and common architecture of the British Raj bringing returned reminiscences of the wealthy princely state Kolhapur used to be.

At Bhavani Mandap, you are able to discover the life size statue of Kolhapur's maximum loved prince Shahu Maharaj. Although, he became deemed king with the aid of the metropolis dwellers, maximum of his political life become spent underneath the Raj. On display are stuffed animals really hunted via Shri Shahu Maharaj consisting of a large bison, Panthers, a couple of deer and few others. It additionally exhibits a modest wood throne believed to be the only used by Shivaji on his visits to Kolhapur, strengthening the idea that he changed into greater a man on a venture with no longer plenty regards to worldly comfort. In its gift shape it functions as a collective tomb of Kolhapur's Maratha royalty.