The Ministers' Building (Burmese: ဝန်ကြီးများရုံး; also known as the Ministers' Office, today known as The Secretariat or Secretariat Yangon) was the administrative seat of British Burma, in downtown Yangon. Burma is the spot where Aung San and eight cabinet ministers were assassinated.
The Victorian-style building is made from red and yellow brick and constructed in a U-shape. The British assigned Henry Hoyne-Fox, an executive engineer at the government's public works, was assigned the task of designing a sprawling new Victorian-style complex on 16 acres in Yangon.
The Secretariat building in the early 1900s. Over the course of the building's later life the complex's grand cupola and 8 of 16 ornate towers on its left and right wings were destroyed during the Bago Earthquake.