An important historical and architectural building of the city, the Municipal Market also stands out today as a cultural and tourist center.

The central pavilion was inaugurated, on July 15, 1883, by the president of the Province, José Paranaguá, at a time when the city of Manaus was experiencing the rubber boom.

Around 1908, an iron pavilion was built for the commercialization, in that time of Amazonian spices, of which it had kerosene lighting and following [2] the same architectural style of the main building.

[4] The market is divided into two pavilions, the first and oldest is made of masonry, the second is composed of iron, the Amazon region at that time had an almost unexplored soil and an insufficient amount of raw material, this motivated the importation almost all materials of the building from Europe, as was the second pavilion which had the entire structure built by Walter Macfarlane of Glasgow.

The Brazilian National Institute of Historical and Artistic Heritage listed on its website Bakus&Brisbit from Belén, Francis Morton Engineers from Liverpool and Walter Macfarlane from Glasgow as the authors of the constructions.