The Indian Students' Union and Hostel is a

YMCA YMCA, sometimes regionally called the Y, is a worldwide youth organization based in Geneva, Switzerland, with more than 64 million beneficiaries in 120 countries. It was founded on 6 June 1844 by George Williams in London, originally ...

hostel in

Fitzroy Square Fitzroy Square is a Georgian square in London. It is the only one in the central London area known as Fitzrovia. The square is one of the area's main features, this once led to the surrounding district to be known as Fitzroy Square or Fitzro ...

Fitzrovia Fitzrovia () is a district of central London, England, near the West End. The eastern part of area is in the London Borough of Camden, and the western in the City of Westminster. It has its roots in the Manor of Tottenham Court, and was urban ...

, London. It was founded in 1920 by the Indian National Council of

s to provide housing and social facilities for Indian students in London. Key individuals who assisted were Edwin Bevan,

Emily Kinnaird Hon. Emily Kinnaird CBE or Emily Cecilia Kinnaird (October, 20 October 1855 – September 1947) was an English missionary and writer. She was active for the Young Women's Christian Association and she had a long association with India. Life Kinna ...

and K. T. Paul, and

Laurence Binyon Robert Laurence Binyon, CH (10 August 1869 – 10 March 1943) was an English poet, dramatist and art scholar. Born in Lancaster, England, his parents were Frederick Binyon, a clergyman, and Mary Dockray. He studied at St Paul's School, London ...

gave the inaugural address.

Ralph Tubbs Ralph Tubbs OBE FRIBA (9 January 1912 – 23 November 1996) was a British architect. Well known amongst the buildings he designed was the Dome of Discovery at the successful Festival of Britain on the South Bank in London in 1951. Ralph was educ ...

designed the current building in the early 1950s.Newsevents.arts.ac.uk
/ref> iThe building has been listed Grade II on the

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since March 1996.

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