Gandhi Market
LocationTharanallur, Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu, India
Coordinates10°49′22″N 78°41′48″E / 10.8227047°N 78.696597°E / 10.8227047; 78.696597
AddressNear Big Kammala Street
Opening date1868 (1868)
ParkingMixed

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

History

Its construction began 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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