CHABAD HOUSE (Nariman House, Colaba)

The building, known as Nariman House, was home to a Chabad House, a Jewish Orthodox outreach centre run by the late Rabbi Gavriel Noach- Gabbi (1979-2008) and Rivkah - Rivky (1980-2008) Holtzberg, who had moved to India in 2003 and owned the building since around 2006.

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A Chabad House, is a Jewish outreach centre was established to facilitate traveling Jewish businessmen and tourists, offering classes, lectures, and workshops on Jewish topics; religious services; Shabbat meals; and special events.

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Chabad House was attacked on 26 November 2008 and six of its occupants, including Rabbi Gavriel and his wife, who was six months pregnant, were killed. Their two-year-old son Moshe, survived the attack after being rescued by his Indian nanny, Sandra Samuel.

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In 2018 the Nariman House was renamed Nariman Light House. After a long period of renovation, the Chabad House reopened its doors in 2014, resuming all its previous functions and preserving a special section of the building to operate as a memorial site and a museum, exhibiting the horrors of the sad

and dramatic event.