Bandra Fair is a week-long fair held annually in the Bandra suburb of Mumbai (Bombay), India. It starts on the Sunday following the 8 of September at the Mount Mary Church, Bandra, the feast day of the Nativity of Mary, the virgin-mother of Jesus Christ, The Bandra Fair is estimated to be around 300 years old. According to a legend the fair started when a statue of St Mary was found floating in the Arabian Sea between 1700 and 1760, which a Koli Christian fisherman had dreamt about a few years earlier. Monti Fest celebrated by Goans and Mangaloreans is similar to the Bandra Fest, and coincides with the Nativity of Our Lady.