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David Hall-Art Gallery & Cafe
An old Dutch house with three thick-walled rooms and a garden.
David Hall is a Dutch-era house on the north side of the Parade Ground in Fort Kochi, now an art gallery and café. You find it on Church Road. Three thick-walled rooms open onto a garden, and the café sits in that garden.
The garden café serves fruit platters, French toast and appam with veggie stew. Dishes run from ₹120 to ₹350. The house has also hosted talks and performances on Kochi’s music history, including mehfils and Anglo-Indian brass bands. It was one of the venues of the first Kochi-Muziris Biennale, and it still shows art in its rooms.
The Dutch East India Company built the house around 1695. It is all that remains of three 17th-century Dutch-era houses, which were built from the material of demolished Portuguese churches. The walls are three feet wide, and the windows have four columns each. The roof is wooden, made of flat-faced rafters. Its Dutch features have not been drastically altered.
Did you know
David Hall is all that remains of three 17th-century Dutch-era houses built from material taken from demolished Portuguese churches.
David Hall was one of the venues of the first Kochi-Muziris Biennale.
The garden café at David Hall serves fruit platters, French toast and appam with veggie stew, at ₹120 to ₹350.
The walls of David Hall are three feet wide, and its windows have four columns each.
David Hall was built around 1695 by the Dutch East India Company.
David Hall at Kochi Biennale: A Kenyan Artist, a Child Bride’s Daughter, and 330 Years of Walls That Listen
A Kenyan artist draws on Dutch walls. A student builds a shelter for her child-bride mother. David Hall is unmissable.
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