मुंबईतील कपडयांचे पहिले मॉल | Mangaldas Market Mumbai | Best Place For Fabric Lovers & Designers ✨

साधारण दीडशे वर्षांपूर्वी मुंबईत पहिली कापड गिरणी सुरू झाली. त्यावेळी या गिरण्यांमध्ये तयार केलेला माल तेथेच विकला जावा यासाठी ब्रिटिशांनी क्रॉफर्ड मार्केटजवळच एक बाजारपेठ बांधली. मुंबईतील या बाजारपेठेत दररोज हजारो मीटर कापड विकले जाई. हे घेण्यासाठी राज्यातील कानाकोपऱ्यातून व्यापारी येत असत. मात्र कालांतराने गिरणगाव उद्ध्वस्त होत गेले आणि मुंबईतील गिरण्या बंद झाल्या आणि लाखो कामगारांच्या नोकऱ्या गेल्या. गिरण्यांच्या चिमण्या थंडावल्या असल्या तरी आजही या बाजारातील राबता कायम आहे. दुसऱ्या राज्यातून आलेला माल विकण्याची प्रथा येथे सुरू झाली आणि ती आजतागायत कायम आहे. गिरणगाव बहरण्याच्या व उद्ध्वस्त काळाचा साक्षीदार असलेली या मंगलदास बाजारातील ब्रिटिशकालीन इमारतीत गेल्या अनेक दशकात काहीच बदल झालेला नाही. तेथे फिरताना बाजाराची संरचना, दुकानदार आणि ग्राहकामधील व्यवहार तुम्हाला गिरण्यांच्या काळात चाललेल्या व्यापाराची आठवण करून देईल. मुंबईत अनेक ठिकाणी कपडय़ांची घाऊक बाजारपेठ आहे. मात्र मंगलदास मार्केटमध्ये मिळणारी विविधता इतर ठिकाणी पाहायला मिळत नाही. छत्रपती शिवाजी स्थानकापासून साधारण एक ते दीड किलोमीटर अंतरावर ही बाजारपेठ सुरू होते. या बाजारपेठेला एकूण १७ प्रवेशद्वार आहेत. ‘ऑनलाइन शॉपिंग’ आणि ‘मॉल’मधील खरेदीचे प्रस्थ वाढल्याने येथील व्यवहारांवर परिणाम झाला आहे.

If Zaveri Bazaar is all about jewelry, Crawford market is all about fruits and vegetables, then Mangaldas Market in Mumbai is all about cloths and fabrics. Since the British era Mangaldas market has been the favorite shopping destination of diehard cloths and fashion lovers residing in Mumbai city. Today in fact this historic shopping destination is the biggest wholesale market for cloths and fabrics in entire Mumbai city.

This wholesale market attracts more than 1 lakh shoppers on daily basis. The staggering number of customers that Mangaldas Market attracts even today is indeed proof of unvarying quality of its cloths & garments and also immense trustworthiness it enjoys among Mumbaikars. In fact some of India’s most prominent fashion designers purchase cloths & fabrics for their creation from very own Mangaldas market. This fact alone tells you about how immensely good the quality of cloths and garments are in Mangaldas market.

Mangaldas Market has over 100 garment & fabric shops which are divided among 9 narrow lanes. You won’t get any sophisticated and classy shopping experience here, if anything this place is as chaotic, disorganized and noisy as its neighborhood market areas like Crawford market and Zaveri market. But this chaotic & disorganized market is overloaded with all kinds & varieties of cloths and fabrics that one can think of:
All kinds of unstitched fabrics: cotton, silk and polyester.
Fabrics for suiting, shirting and blazer.
Fabric for men's sherwani.
Fabrics for pencil skirts, waist coats, maxi dresses and salwar suits.
Saares and Kurta & Pajama.

Some Interesting Facts about Mangaldas Market
Carry only cash. Probably only few shops at Mangaldas market accept debit or credit card payment. So, carry as much cash as you can
If you are a Mumbaikar who is going to get married soon, then head to Mangaldas Market. Most of the soon-to-be married people of Mumbai get all their marriage wardrobes from Mangaldas market. The prospective married couples not only get quality cloths, but also save immense money.
Another very important thing that readers and people must know is that Mangaldas market is not street market. It’s an indoor market, as in all the cloths and garments are sold from shops and not street stalls.
All the newly arrived cloths & fabrics in the city first reaches Mangaldas market and only then is distributed to other parts of the city. This implies that Mangaldas is only place where Mumbaikars can shop all the newly arrived cloths months or weeks before they are eventually distributed to all other retail stores of Mumbai; and that too at wholesale prices.

How to Reach Mangaldas Market
Mangaldas Market is very near to iconic C.ST or Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus station. There are nonstop buses and taxis from C.ST to Mangaldas Market. The taxi or bus journey from C.S.T to Mangaldas market would not take more than 15-20 minutes.

As for reaching C.S.T station, it is the main terminal of central and harbor railway local trains and hence there can be no dearth of local trains whatsoever for C.S.T station.

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