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
Opening date	1860s
No. of floors	4

Zegyo Market (Burmese: ဈေးချို), located in central 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 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]

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. Scott, James George (1911). "Mandalay" . In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 17 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 557–558.
3. Nelles Verlag; Helmut Köllner; Axel Bruns (1998). Myanmar (Burma). Hunter Publishing, Inc. p. 160. ISBN 9783886184156.