Walking at Pasar Seni | Central Market | Kuala Lumpur | Malaysia | GoPro Hero 8

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Pasar Budaya atau Pasar Seni ialah sebuah tempat menarik di sekitar bandar raya Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Lokasinya terletak berhampiran Sungai Klang, iaitu berdekatan dengan bangunan Dayabumi.

Dahulunya dikenali sebagai Pasar Besar Kuala Lumpur yang menjual barang-barang basah seperti ikan, daging, ayam, sayur-sayuran dan barangan runcit, barang-barang yang dijual itu adalah barangan keperluan harian kepada para penduduk dan pelombong bijih timah di Kuala Lumpur pada suatu ketika dahulu.

Kini pasar tersebut sekali lagi berubah wajah apabila pada tahun 1985, ia telah diubahsuai dan dinaiktaraf. Berhampiran pasar ini ialah sebuah stesen LRT, iaitu stesen “Pasar Seni”.

Pada hari ini, Pasar Seni dengan binaan hiasan seni merupakan pusat budaya untuk pameran dan pembangunan kebudayaan, kesenian, dan bidang “kraftangan” di Malaysia. Pasar Seni merupakan kumpulan kedai-kedai yang menumpukan kepada hasil kerja tangan Malaysia yang menjual pakaian dan barangan tradisional seperti yang diperbuat dengan batik tradisi Malaysia.

Central Market Kuala Lumpur is located at Jalan Tun Tan Cheng Lock (Foch Avenue) and the pedestrian-only section of Jalan Hang Kasturi (Rodger Street), a few minutes away from Petaling Street and next to Klang River. It was founded in 1888 as a wet market,[1] while the current Art Deco-style building was completed in 1937. It has been classified as a Heritage Site by the Malaysian Heritage Society and is now a landmark for Malaysian culture and heritage.

The original building was built in 1888 by the British in colonial British Malaya. It was used as a wet market for Kuala Lumpur citizens and tin miners.

A few decades later, the Wet Market was very convenient for early city dwellers because it was near the Klang bus stand, the hub of feeder bus service for Kuala Lumpur and the train station.

Further expansions were made in 1889, 1895, 1920, and 1921. By 1933, the warehouse expansions, which cost around $167,000, had brought the market to its present size.

As Kuala Lumpur experienced rapid development in the 1970s, plans to demolish the site were in place. The Malaysian Heritage Society’s intervention proved timely, as they successfully petitioned against its deconstruction, and the site was declared a “Heritage Site”.