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Construction of the Jami-Ul-Alfar Mosque commenced in 1908 and the building was completed in 1909. [ 2][ 3] The mosque was commissioned by the local Indian Muslim community, based in Pettah, to fulfill their required five-times-daily prayer and Jummah on Fridays. The mosque's designer and builder was Habibu Lebbe Saibu Lebbe (an unlettered ...
Colombo, Sri Lanka. Coordinates. 6°54′16.5″N 79°52′02.2″E. / 6.904583°N 79.867278°E / 6.904583; 79.867278. Website. www.museum.gov.lk. Independence Memorial Museum in Colombo, Sri Lanka is located in the basement of the Independence Memorial Hall, Independence Square (formally Torrington Square) in the Cinnamon Gardens.
Colombo was the capital of the coastal areas controlled by the Portuguese, the Dutch and the British from the 1700s to 1815 when the British gained control of the entire island following the Kandyan convention. From then until the 1980s the national capital of the island was Colombo.
Lotus Tower (Sinhala: නෙළුම් කුළුණ; Tamil: தாமரைக் கோபுரம்), also referred to as Colombo Lotus Tower, is a 351.5 m (1,153 ft) tall tower, located in Colombo, Sri Lanka. [1] [2] It has been called a symbolic landmark of Sri Lanka. [3]
The Sri Lankan independence movement was a peaceful political movement which was aimed at achieving independence and self-rule for the country of Sri Lanka, then British Ceylon, from the British Empire. The switch of powers was generally known as peaceful transfer of power from the British administration to Ceylon representatives, a phrase that ...
Royal College, Colombo ( Sinhala: රාජකීය විද්යාලය, Tamil: ரோயல் கல்லூரி also known as; Royal Colombo, [ 1 ][ 2 ]Colombo Royal College[ 3 ] or Colombo Royal[ 4 ]) is a selective entry boys' school located in Cinnamon Gardens, Colombo, Sri Lanka. Started by Joseph Marsh in 1835, [ 5 ] it was ...
Coordinates: 6.8888°N 79.8656°E. Isipathanaramaya Temple is one of the oldest Buddhist temples in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Located in Havelock Town it was built in 1916 by Duenuge Disan Pedris, a wealthy merchant, in memory of his only son Henry Pedris [1] who was executed by British officials for alleged incitement of racial riots in 1915, which ...
COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's President will prepare an appropriate time frame to reactivate the Light Railway Transit Project with Japan, which was suspended in 2020 citing financial woes.