Ministers‘ Building

The Ministers' Building; officially the Ministers' Office, also known as The Secretariat or Secretariat Yangon, was the administrative seat of British Burma, in downtown , Burma and is the spot where Aung San and eight cabinet ministers were assassinated.
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  • Type: Office building
  • Description: historic government building complex in Yangon, Myanmar.
  • Also known as: “Ministers’ Building”, “Ministers‘ Office”, “Secretariat Yangon”, “The Secretariat”, “The Secretariat Yangon”, and “ဝန်ကြီးများရုံး (ရန်ကုန်)”
  • Address: မဟာဗန္ဓုလလမ်း
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Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Saint Mary’s Cathedral and Sule Pagoda.

Church
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Saint Mary's Cathedral or Immaculate Conception Cathedral is a Catholic cathedral located on the corner of Bogyoke Aung San Road and Bo Aung Kyaw Street in Botahtaung Township, , . is situated 1,100 feet north of Ministers‘ Building.

Buddhist temple
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The is a Burmese Buddhist located in the heart of downtown , occupying the centre of the city and an important space in contemporary Burmese politics, ideology and geography. is situated 2,500 feet west of Ministers‘ Building.

Historic building
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, also known as Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Trust, is a building in downtown , Myanmar, on the Merchant Street corner of Bo Aung Kyaw Road. is situated 1,400 feet southwest of Ministers‘ Building.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Pabedan Township and Botataung Township.

Suburb
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is located in the center of downtown , . The township is home to Bogyoke Aung San Market and Theingyi Market, two of the largest markets in all of Yangon.

Suburb
is an area of , . Named after the Botahtaung Pagoda, the township consists of ten wards, and shares boundaries with in the north and east, and Yangon River in the south, in the west and Mingala Taungnyunt township in the north.

Suburb
is located in the western part of downtown , and shares borders with Lanmadaw township in the west, Pabedan township in the east, Seikkan township and Yangon river in the south, and Dagon township in the north.

Ministers‘ Building

Latitude
16.77546° or 16° 46′ 32″ north
Longitude
96.16584° or 96° 9′ 57″ east
Inception
1905
Levels
2
Open location code
7M8RQ5G8+58
Open­Street­Map ID
way 264732913
Open­Street­Map feature
building=­office
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­heritage_building
Wiki­data ID
Q6866494
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In Other Languages

From Burmese to Spanish—“Ministers‘ Building” goes by many names.
  • Burmese: “ဝန်ကြီးများရုံး”
  • Chinese: “部長大樓”
  • Chinese: “部长大楼”
  • Japanese: “ビルマ政庁”
  • Russian: “Министерское здание”
  • Spanish: “Oficina de los Ministros”

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