Wellesley Square’s Muna gift shop shutting down

Muna Gifts jan 2016 — Muna Gifts promotes its going-out-of-business sale

Muna Gifts, the Wellesley Square gift shop opened around the start of 2014 by the owners of Cafe Mangal, is closing.

The shop originally was located next to the restaurant, but moved to the opposite side of the road at 550 Washington St.

The Ozargun family, via Muna, saved shoppers the trouble of traveling to Turkey by selecting handmade doodads during trips to their native country and making them available in Wellesley. The store’s inventory includes pottery, silk scarves, jewelry, pillows and assorted household accessories.

Cafe Mangal’s Berna Ozargun says that “since our core business — Café Mangal — is getting busier I have decided accordingly. On the other hand, I’ll continue to display and sell the same gift items in Café Mangal in a smaller scale. If, in future, there is any suitable space available in the same building where Café Mangal is, then an attached gift shop is also a possibility.”

Wellesley seems to be going through another of those business property churn cycles, with other vacancies resulting across town from the closures of such business as La Riviera and Citi Sports.

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