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[[File:Zanzibar 2012 06 04 4541 (7592188284).jpg|thumb|300px|The name of the company as it appears today at the entrance of a hotel in Zanzibar]]<br />
'''Cowasji Shavaksha Dinshaw (Adenwalla)''' {{post-nominals|country=GBR|CIE}} (1827–1900) was a trader who emigrated from [[Surat]]/[[Mumbai|Bombay]]. The family name ''Adenwalla'' ("from Aden") was a later addition, and is the name by which he is today remembered.<br />
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Cowasji travelled extensively and set up trading posts in other British possessions/protectorates, most notably on the east-African coast in [[Zanzibar]] and [[Mombasa]]. He was however best known for his business acumen, and the foresight that Aden would become an important port within the framework of the (modern-day) [[Suez Canal]].<br />
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He had an entire floating dock shipped from Britain in 1895 and was known locally as "Dinshaw Pontoon".<br />
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Although of the [[Zoroastrian]] faith (and founder of the [[Fire temple|Fire Temple]] in Aden), he also financed the construction of a [[mosque]] for the local Muslim population, which is known as Cowasji Masjid after him.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://tenets.zoroastrianism.com/aden33.html |title=Flames of Faith - The TRUE Story of the Aden Holy Fire: by Pervez Daruwala |publisher=Tenets.zoroastrianism.com |date= |accessdate=2010-09-01}}</ref><br />
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