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Religious & Spiritual (29)

Religious & Spiritual

The Japanese Peace Pagoda

Eastern Province, Ampara

The Japanese Peace Pagoda near Ampara is one of several peace pagodas built in Sri Lanka by the Japanese Buddhist order...

Religious & Spiritual

Henanegala Len Viharaya

Eastern Province, Ampara

Henanegala Len Viharaya is an ancient cave temple in the Ampara District featuring rock caves with Buddhist paintings, i...

Religious & Spiritual

Veheragala Temple

Eastern Province, Ampara

Veheragala Temple is an ancient Buddhist site in the Ampara District featuring a dagoba, stone pillars, and cave shelter...

Religious & Spiritual

Angurukaramulla Temple

Western Province, Negombo

Angurukaramulla Temple in Negombo is a historic Buddhist temple notable for its enormous dragon-mouth entrance through w...

Religious & Spiritual

Dowa Rock Temple

Uva Province, Badulla

Dowa Rock Temple, located between Bandarawela and Ella in the Uva Province, features a striking 11.5-metre unfinished Bu...

Religious & Spiritual

Kaluthara Bodhiya

Western Province, Kalutara

Kalutara Bodhiya is a revered Buddhist temple complex on the banks of the Kalu Ganga river in Kalutara, featuring one of...

Religious & Spiritual

Wolvendaal Church

Western Province, Colombo

Wolvendaal Church in Colombo's Pettah district is the oldest Protestant church in Sri Lanka, built by the Dutch in 1749....

Ratmullukanda Viharaya Religious & Spiritual

Ratmullukanda Viharaya

North Western Province, Kurunegala

Ratmullukanda Viharaya in Sri Lanka's North Western Province is the highest peak you can reach by vehicle, according to...

Religious & Spiritual

Tharulengala Rajamaha Viharaya

Eastern Province, Hulanuge

Tucked away in Sri Lanka's Eastern Province, Tharulengala Rajamaha Viharaya is an ancient Buddhist cave temple perched o...

Ridi Viharaya Religious & Spiritual

Ridi Viharaya

North Western Province, Ridigama

Nestled in Sri Lanka's North Western Province, Ridi Viharaya—known as the Silver Temple—is a 2nd-century BCE Buddhist ge...

Attanagalla Raja Maha Viharaya Religious & Spiritual

Attanagalla Raja Maha Viharaya

Western Province, Attanagalla

Nestled in Attanagalla village, Attanagalla Raja Maha Viharaya is an ancient royal Buddhist temple in Sri Lanka's Wester...

Dambakola Patuna Viharaya (Port of Jambukola) Religious & Spiritual

Dambakola Patuna Viharaya (Port of Jambukola)

Northern Province, Jaffna

Imagine standing where Buddhism took root in Sri Lanka: Dambakola Patuna Viharaya, the ancient Port of Jambukola north o...

Magul Maha Viharaya Religious & Spiritual

Magul Maha Viharaya

Eastern Province, Pottuvil

Magul Maha Viharaya is an ancient Buddhist temple complex in Sri Lanka's Eastern Province, steeped in legends of a royal...

Neelagiriseya Religious & Spiritual

Neelagiriseya

Eastern Province, Lahugala

Neelagiriseya, the largest Buddhist stupa in Sri Lanka's Eastern Province, towers at 22m high with a 182m circumference...

Muhudu Maha Vihara Religious & Spiritual

Muhudu Maha Vihara

Eastern Province, Pottuvil

Nestled near a wide beach in Pottuvil, Eastern Province, Muhudu Maha Vihara is an ancient Buddhist temple complex over 2...

Kebiliththa Devalaya (Maha Siyambalawa Devalaya) Religious & Spiritual

Kebiliththa Devalaya (Maha Siyambalawa Devalaya)

Uva Province, Kataragama

Kebiliththa Devalaya, hidden deep within Yala National Park's jungle, is one of Sri Lanka's most sacred and remote pilgr...

Henanigala Panchawasa Raja Maha Viharaya Religious & Spiritual

Henanigala Panchawasa Raja Maha Viharaya

Eastern Province, Dehiattakandiya

Nestled in Sri Lanka's Eastern Province, Henanigala Panchawasa Raja Maha Viharaya is one of just two remaining 'panchava...

Basilica of Our Lady of Lanka Religious & Spiritual

Basilica of Our Lady of Lanka

Western Province, Ragama

Discover the Basilica of Our Lady of Lanka, Sri Lanka's only basilica built after World War II and a profound spiritual...

Okanda Devalaya Religious & Spiritual

Okanda Devalaya

Eastern Province, Okanda

Nestled on a hillock in Okanda hamlet, Ampara District, Eastern Province, Okanda Devalaya is a sacred shrine dedicated t...

Ancient Kadurugoda Viharaya Religious & Spiritual

Ancient Kadurugoda Viharaya

Northern Province, Chunnakam

Discover Ancient Kadurugoda Viharaya in Jaffna's Northern Province, where around 20 unique stupas crafted from coral sto...

Sri Lankaramaya Buddhist Temple Religious & Spiritual

Sri Lankaramaya Buddhist Temple

Western Province, Auckland

Nestled in Auckland's Ōtāhuhu suburb, Sri Lankaramaya Buddhist Temple offers a serene slice of Sri Lanka right here in N...

Koneswaram Temple Religious & Spiritual

Koneswaram Temple

Eastern Province, Trincomalee

Perched atop Swami Rock in Sri Lanka's Eastern Province, Koneswaram Temple is the most sacred of the Pancha Ishwarams, d...

Kelaniya Raja Maha Vihara Religious & Spiritual

Kelaniya Raja Maha Vihara

Western Province, Kelaniya

Kelaniya Raja Maha Vihara is one of Sri Lanka's most sacred Buddhist temples, believed to have been hallowed during the...

Nainativu Nagapooshani Amman Temple Religious & Spiritual

Nainativu Nagapooshani Amman Temple

Northern Province, Jaffna

Nainativu Nagapooshani Amman Temple is a stunning Hindu shrine on a sacred island in Sri Lanka's Northern Province, dedi...