Zegyo Market (Burmese: ဈေးချို), located in central Mandalay, is the oldest and most important market in Mandalay.
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.