Any further information or photographs of the work of Ananda Peiris and the Colombo Grand Mosque could be emailed to nishanfernando70@gmail.com. History of the old mosque: The article from the Ceylon ...

Colombo: A Cultural Cornucopia Colombo, the executive and judicial capital city of Sri Lanka, is not just the island nation’s ...

For decades, the area of Colombo 12 has been a densely populated community, with many wholesale establishments. From Armour Street, a short taxi ride would take you to New Moor Street, a busy area of ...

COLOMBO (AFP) – Sri Lankan police clamped a fresh curfew on a Colombo neighbourhood Sunday, a day after a Buddhist-led mob vandalised a mosque in an incident that raised religious tensions and ...

A deserted mosque in Dematagoda in Colombo with a poster stuck on its wall condemning the Easter Sunday killings. Twenty minutes later, most of the mosques in and around Dematagoda, where Sri ...

The Colombo Grand Mosque has officially announced that the Hajj Festival (Eid al-Adha) will be celebrated in Sri Lanka on Friday, June 7, 2025, following the sighting of the crescent. Muslims across ...

Muslims of Sri Lanka with rest of the world celebrate the Ramadan festival today (Wednesday 10) as the Colombo Grand Mosque announced last evening that the new moon was cited in several parts of the ...

Sri Lankan police has lifted a curfew in a neighbourhood in Sri Lankan city of Colombo after a Buddhist-led mob attack on a mosque raised religious tensions and left the Muslim minority in fear ...

Bill Clinton toured Senegal’s Grand Mosque in 1998, while Joe Biden visited the same Abu Dhabi mosque while serving as Barack Obama’s vice president in 2016. 5.

The Colombo Grand mosque said the new moon heralding the month of Ramadan was sighted last night. Share This Post. Tweet. ... Whether you live in Colombo, Galle, Kandy, Matara, Jaffna and more - we've ...

Sri Lankan police clamped a fresh curfew on a Colombo neighbourhood on Sunday, a day after a Buddhist-led mob vandalised a mosque in an incident that raised religious tensions and sparked US concern.