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Saigon Central Post Office is a working post office on Paris Commune Square, beside the cathedral, built in 1886–1891 to designs by the colony's chief architect Alfred Foulhoux. In its vaulted hall, two maps painted in 1892 show the telegraph lines of southern Vietnam and Cambodia and Saigon with its surroundings.
Bến Thành Market is a covered market in the centre of Ho Chi Minh City. The present hall was built by the French contractors Brossard et Mopin between 1912 and 1914, and the clock tower over its south gate has become a symbol of the city. Nearly 1,500 stalls sell food, textiles, souvenirs and household goods.
The Mariamman Temple at 45 Trương Định Street in Ho Chi Minh City is a Hindu temple to the goddess Mariamman, built around the turn of the 20th century by Tamil traders from India. A gateway tower about 12 metres high, covered in painted figures of deities, rises above the entrance, and statues of goddesses line the outer walls.
The Jade Emperor Pagoda at 73 Mai Thị Lựu Street in Ho Chi Minh City was built in the early 20th century by the Cantonese migrant Lưu Minh as a hall to the Taoist Jade Emperor. Built of brick with a tiled roof lined with coloured ceramic figures, it has been run by Buddhist monks since 1982 and was renamed Phước Hải Tự in 1984.
Tân Định Church, formally the Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, is a Catholic parish church on Hai Bà Trưng Street in Ho Chi Minh City, completed in 1876. Mainly neo-Romanesque with Gothic and Renaissance elements, it has been painted pink inside and out since 1957, which gives it the nickname 'the pink church'.
The Thien Hau Temple, officially the Tuệ Thành Assembly Hall, is a temple of the sea goddess Mazu, called Thiên Hậu in Vietnamese, on Nguyễn Trãi Street in Chợ Lớn. The Cantonese community built it around 1760 and repaired it many times up to 1916. Porcelain figures on its roofs show scenes from Chinese legend, and three statues of the goddess stand on the altar.
Bình Tây Market is the largest market in Chợ Lớn, the Chinese quarter of Ho Chi Minh City. It opened in 1928, financed by the Chaozhou-born merchant Quách Đàm, and fills a whole block around a central courtyard, with a clock tower over the main gate. A renovation that restored the original tiled roofs ended in 2018; more than 1,400 stalls trade mainly wholesale.
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