Gandhi Market

Gandhi Market
Location Tharanallur
Address Near Big Kammala Street, Tharanallur, Tiruchirappalli
Tamil Nadu, India.
PIN – 620 008
Opening date 1868
Parking Mixed

Gandhi Market (Tamil: காந்தி மார்க்கெட்) officially called as Mahatma Gandhi Market, is a wholesale farmers' market in the city of Tiruchirappalli in Tamil Nadu, India.

History

Its construction was begun as the Fort Market in 1867 and completed in 1868.[1] The market was expanded in 1927, when P. Rathinavelu Thevar was the mayor of Tiruchirappalli and renamed as Mahatma Gandhi market after Mahatma Gandhi.

See also

Notes

  1. Moore, Lewis (1878). A Manual of the Trichinopoly District in the Presidency of Madras. Government Press. pp. 280–281.

References

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