Pettah Market

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The Pettah Market is an open market in the city of Colombo, Sri Lanka.

The entrance to the Pettah Market is marked formally by a tall monument in the centre of a roundabout, known as the Khan Clock Tower which was built by the family of Framjee Bhickajee Khan, an eminent Parsi family from Bombay that used to have substantial business interests in the country and who also owned the Colombo Oil Mills.

Its a place you can buy almost any thing you want, Pettah's roads are always packed and pavements are full of small stalls selling from delicious Sherbats to Shirts. The main street is mostly clothes shops and the cross roads known as first cross street, second cross street up to fifth cross street each street has a specific business. For example first cross street, is mainly for electronics, second cross street is for cellular phones and fancy goods. Most of these businesses in Pettah are dominated by Muslim traders. At the end of the main street further away from Fort is the sea street Sri Lanka's Gold market, this mile long street is full of jewelry shops.