Gandhi Market

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Gandhi Market
Location Tharanallur
Address Near Big Kammala Street, Tharanallur, Tiruchirappalli
Tamil Nadu, India.
PIN – 620 008
Opening date 1868; 156 years ago (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

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