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Gandhi Market

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Location
  
Tharanallur

Parking
  
Mixed

Address
  
Near Big Kammala Street, Tharanallur, Tiruchirappalli Tamil Nadu, India. PIN – 620 008

Opening date
  
1868; 149 years ago (1868)

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 began as the Fort Market in 1867 and completed in 1868. The market was expanded in 1927, when P. Rathinavelu Thevar was the mayor of Tiruchirappalli and renamed as Mahatma Gandhi market after Mahatma Gandhi.

References

Gandhi Market Wikipedia