Zegyo Market

Zegyo Market
ဈေးချို
Location 84th St between 24th and 26th Streets
Chanayethazan, Mandalay
Mandalay Division, Myanmar
Coordinates 21°58′57″N 96°04′38″E / 21.9826°N 96.0771°E / 21.9826; 96.0771Coordinates: 21°58′57″N 96°04′38″E / 21.9826°N 96.0771°E / 21.9826; 96.0771
Opening date 1860s

Zegyo Market (Burmese: ဈေးချို), located in downtown Mandalay, is the oldest and most important market in Mandalay.

History

Zegyo Market, covering 12 acres (4.86 hectares), was founded during the reign of King Mindon. It was a principal distribution center for beans, citrus fruit, cotton, nuts, onions, rice, tobacco and wheat as well as the main market for jewellery and handicrafts such as silver and gold embroidery.[1] The market was totally destroyed by fire in 1897,[2] and rebuilt in 1903 with a masonry structure designed by an Italian, Count Conte Calderari.[3] In the 1990s, the colonial era structure was pulled down and replaced with a Chinese-style shopping center.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Leo Paul Dana (2002). When economies change paths: models of transition in China, the central Asian republics, Myanmar & the nations of former Indochine Française. World Scientific. pp. 163–166. ISBN 9789810249496.
  2. ↑ Hugh Chisholm (1911). The Encyclopædia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and General Information (11 ed.). University press. p. 557.
  3. 1 2 Nelles Verlag, Helmut Köllner, Axel Bruns (1998). Myanmar (Burma). Hunter Publishing, Inc. p. 160. ISBN 9783886184156.
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