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About this place
Prahran Market’s history distinguishes its founding from the opening of its larger Commercial Road premises in 1891.
The record
Comparison: The market institution’s founding, not the age of its present premises.
Competing oldest-market claims use different continuity and location definitions. We publish the operator’s dates without naming a winner.
Visiting
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Sources
Sources checked 23 September 2026. A publisher’s claim is attributed; it is not a complete independent survey.
- Prahran Market
Supports the specific fact and scope described above.
- South Melbourne Market
Competing oldest-market wording; no overall winner is asserted here.