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| Saigon Central Post Office | |
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Bưu điện Sài Gòn, Bưu điện Trung tâm Sài Gòn, Tòa nhà Bưu điện Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh | |
.jpg) Saigon Central Post Office in 2023 | |
 Interactive map of Saigon Central Post Office | |
| Former names | Sở dây thép Sài Gòn (Vietnamese; inFrench colonial period) |
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| General information | |
| Type | Post Office |
| Architectural style | Eclecticism |
| Location | No.2Paris Commune Square,Saigon,Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam |
| Coordinates | 10°46′48″N106°42′00″E / 10.78000°N 106.70000°E /10.78000; 106.70000 |
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| Renovated | 2014 |
| Renovation cost | US$200,000 |
| Owner | Vietnam Post |
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TheSaigon Central Post Office (Vietnamese:Bưu điện Trung tâm Sài Gòn,French:Poste centrale de Saïgon) is a post office inParis Commune Square,Saigon ward,Ho Chi Minh City, next to theSaigon Notre-Dame Basilica, the city's cathedral.
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The building was constructed when Vietnam was part ofFrench Indochina in the late 19th century. It counts withGothic,Renaissance and French influences. It was constructed between 1886 and 1891 and is now a tourist attraction.[1]
It was designed by Alfred Foulhoux,[2] but is often erroneously credited as being the work ofGustave Eiffel or a collaboration between Foulhoux andHanoi-basedAuguste Henri Vildieu. As translated by the historian Tim Doling, the journalArchitecte constructeur: Revue du monde architectural et artistique of 15 September 1891 commented: “The inauguration the new Saigon Post Office, which was held on 14 July, had been postponed until the return of the Governor General. This monument, adorned with a most artistic façade, is particularly well laid out and well equipped for the different services to which it is intended; it does the greatest honour to the skill and talent of the distinguished Chief Architect of the Colony, M. Foulhoux.”[3]
On the outside wall of the post office there are several plaques commemorating important scientists and engineers, who contributed to the development of the communication technologies of the time. These include Morse, Ampere, Volta, Ohm, and Faraday.
Inside the Saigon Central Post office of special note are two painted maps that were created just after the post office was built, the first one located on the left side of the building is a map of Southern Vietnam and Cambodia titledLignes telegraphiques du Sud Vietnam et Cambodge 1892 ("Telegraphic lines of Southern Vietnam and Cambodia 1892").
The second map of greater Saigon is titledSaigon et ses environs 1892 ("Saigon and its surroundings 1892").[4]
Dương Văn Ngộ, known for being the last public letter writer in Vietnam, worked at the office from 1990 to 2021.
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