Building & Centre of Ajmer

Mayo College

One of India’s best public schools, located in the southeast of the Ana Sagar, has now been converted to the Circuit House. One can view the lake and the cenotaph and the shrine of Swami Dayanand, founder of the Arya Samaj movement in India.

Established in 1875 by Lord Mayo, the then Viceroy of India, it was exclusively for the education of the aristocracy and patterned on the British public school pattern. The main building is built of white unpolished marble, constructed in the Indo-saracenic style with a delicately proportioned clock tower, which is 127 ft in height.