Zegyo Market | |
Native Name: | Burmese: ဈေးချို |
Location: | 84th St between 24th and 26th Streets Chanayethazan, Mandalay Mandalay Division, Myanmar |
Coordinates: | 21.9826°N 96.0771°W |
Opening Date: | 1860s |
Floors: | 4 |
Zegyo Market (my|ဈေးချို), located in central Mandalay, is the oldest and most important market in Mandalay.
Zegyo Market, covering 12 acres (4.86 hectares), was founded during the reign of King Mindon. It was a principal distribution centre 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 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 centre.[3]