Central Telegraph Office | |
Native Name: | ဗဟိုကြေးနန်းရုံး |
Location: | Yangon, Myanmar |
Completion Date: | 1917 |
Architect: | John Begg |
Coordinates: | 16.7741°N 96.1613°W |
Central Telegraph Office (Burmese: ဗဟိုကြေးနန်းရုံး) is a colonial-era landmark in Yangon, Myanmar (formerly Rangoon, Burma), designated in the Yangon City Heritage List. The building, located on the corner of Pansodan and Maha Bandula Roads, now houses the a government office, Myanma Posts and Telecommunications (MPT).
Central Telegraph Office was designed by John Begg, a government architect who had also designed other colonial era buildings in the city, including Custom House on Strand Road, and the Printing and Publishing Enterprise building.[1] Construction for the four-story, steel-framed building, took place between 1913 and 1917, delivered by Clark & Greig.[2] For a time, the building also housed the Burma Broadcasting Service.