diff --git a/src/main/java/com/bc/zarr/storage/ZipStore.java b/src/main/java/com/bc/zarr/storage/ZipStore.java
index 65953d8..9585bfd 100644
--- a/src/main/java/com/bc/zarr/storage/ZipStore.java
+++ b/src/main/java/com/bc/zarr/storage/ZipStore.java
@@ -35,6 +35,8 @@
 import java.io.InputStream;
 import java.io.OutputStream;
 import java.net.URI;
+import java.net.URLEncoder;
+import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;
 import java.nio.file.FileSystem;
 import java.nio.file.FileSystemAlreadyExistsException;
 import java.nio.file.FileSystems;
@@ -54,7 +56,7 @@ public ZipStore(Path zipFilePath) throws IOException {
         if (!Files.exists(zipFilePath)) {
             zipParams.put("create", "true");
         }
-        final URI uri = URI.create("jar:file:" + zipFilePath.toUri().getPath());
+        final URI uri = URI.create("jar:" + zipFilePath.toUri());
         zfs = getFileSystem(zipParams, uri);
         internalRoot = zfs.getRootDirectories().iterator().next();
     }
diff --git a/src/test/java/com/bc/zarr/storage/ZipStoreTest.java b/src/test/java/com/bc/zarr/storage/ZipStoreTest.java
index 8f67266..53b9cc1 100644
--- a/src/test/java/com/bc/zarr/storage/ZipStoreTest.java
+++ b/src/test/java/com/bc/zarr/storage/ZipStoreTest.java
@@ -73,6 +73,16 @@ public void tearDown() throws Exception {
         }
     }
 
+
+    @Test
+    public void createZipStoreWithSpaceInPath() throws IOException {
+        Path spaceDir = testDataPath.resolve("folder name");
+        Files.createDirectories(spaceDir);
+        Path resolve = spaceDir.resolve("zipped.znap.zip");
+        store = new ZipStore(resolve);
+        assertThat(store).isNotNull();
+    }
+
     @Test
     public void createFileSystemStore_withPathString_withoutFS() throws NoSuchFieldException, IllegalAccessException {
         //execution