Darajani Market

Darajani's main building was constructed in 1904 by Bomanjee Maneckjee for Sultan Ali bin Hamud, on the site of a market established in the 1880s after the closure of Stone Town's former slave market nearby. It is also known as Estella Market, after Countess Estella, sister of Zanzibar's British-era prime minister Lloyd Mathews, and colloquially as Marikiti Kuu ('main market' in Swahili). The whitewashed, colonial-style building with its ornate corrugated-iron roof stands opposite the Anglican Cathedral of Christ and today functions chiefly as a food market, with stalls selling seafood, meat, fruit, grains and spices alongside clothing and electronics.