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  • House at Seeduwa.
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  • Sri Lanka. House at Seeduwa.
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  • House at Seeduwa.
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  • Home in Dickwella. South<br />
<br />
(A2 - 12/2021)
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  • Home in Dickwella. South
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  • Home in Dickwella. South
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  • Inside door of Vedda Mahattaya's house in Dickwella.
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  • Home in Dickwella. South
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  • Home in Dickwella. South
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  • Home in Dickwella. South<br />
<br />
(A2 - 12/2021)
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  • Home in Dickwella. South
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  • Wood pillar. Ambalangoda. Old town.
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  • An old house on the Galle Road. A classic shop house. Most of the old facades have now been destroyed with road widening over the years.
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  • Sri Lanka. The Walauwa, just south of Bentota bridge.
    Sri Lanka House.jpg
  • Trellis on veranda of a house.
    Sri Lanka_Ballustrade and Trellis.jpg
  • Detail of trellis or lattice work on a house in North Colombo. ..Most examples of this traditional work have now been taken down and replaced or destroyed. 2004
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  • "Maheswari Vasa" entrance doorway.
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  • Entrance to a home.  Trincomalee.<br />
A4
    Sri Lanka. Trincomalee door.jpg
  • Colonial home in Colombo.
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  • Colonial home in Colombo.
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  • Old home in Negombo
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  • Old home in Negombo
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  • Looking up into rafters of a tiled roof.
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  • Bissa. Bins for the storage of harvested rice.
    Sri Lanka. Bissa's for rice.jpg
  • Detail of a home near Induruwa. West Coast, near Bentota.
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  • Sri Lanka. An old Ambalama in the Kurunegala district.
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  • Sri Lanka. Man seated at Ambalama or Pilgrims rest in the Kurunegala District.
    Sri Lanka_Pilgrim_rest.jpg
  • Kovil on road to Ratnapura.
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  • Shailabimbarama Buddhist Temple. Dodanduwa.
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  • Shailabimbarama Buddhist Temple. Dodanduwa.
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  • Small church on the road between Trincomalee and Vavuniya. Closer to Trinco. When I next visited the site, it was no longer standing.<br />
Dominic Sansoni<br />
c. 1990
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  • A fine example of an old townhouse in Colombo.<br />
Down Wilson Street, near Hultsdorf, in Colombo. 2015
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  • Interior of old home. Old Moor Street, Colombo
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  • Mr Fernando in the doorway of his upstair flat.<br />
Newham Square Housing scheme. Ratnam Road.
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  • HULLUGALLE TAMPITA VIHARE, <br />
off NIKAWERITIYA
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  • HULLUGALLE TAMPITA VIHARE, <br />
off NIKAWERITIYA
    Sri Lanka_Hulugalle_vihara_DSC8256.jpg
  • Kandy town, in front of the Temple of the Tooth. A gateway between shrines and temples. Entrance to Sri Natha Devale.
    SRI LANKA_Kandy_Kandyan Architecture.jpg
  • Ridi Viharaya, has a series of caves and is home to some of the finest examples of Buddhist temple painting and sculpture.
    SRI LANKA. Ridi Viharaya_DSC0041.jpg
  • SASSERUWA temple
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  • SASSERUWA temple<br />
Cave mural showing the Buddha under a Bodhi Tree.
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  • Hindu temple door.
    Sri Lanka_Hindu Kovil painted door.jpg
  • Priest at a Hindu Temple by the beach in Mutwal, Colombo.
    Sri Lanka_Mutwal_Kovil.jpg
  • Twin pillars at preaching hall of Kumarakanda Maha Viharaya Buddhist Temple. at Dodanduwa,  just north of Galle.
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  • The Dambadeniya Rajamaha Vihara
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  • The Dambadeniya Rajamaha Vihara
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  • The Dambadeniya Rajamaha Vihara
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  • The stupa inside a building.<br />
The Dambadeniya Rajamaha Vihara
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  • Kovil wall from near Kandapola
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  • The wall of this temple have some of the finest examples of temple mural painting.<br />
Shailabimbarama Buddhist Temple in Dodanduwa. Painting of the Temple of the Tooth in Kandy or Dalada Maligawa on the wall of the temple.
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  • Shailabimbarama Buddhist Temple. Dodanduwa. The wall of this temple have some of the finest examples of temple mural painting.<br />
Shailabimbarama Buddhist Temple in Dodanduwa. Painting of the Temple of the Tooth in Kandy or Dalada Maligawa on the wall of the temple.
    Sri Lanka_Shailabimbarama_Shailabimb...jpg
  • Shailabimbarama Buddhist Temple. Dodanduwa. The wall of this temple have some of the finest examples of temple mural painting.<br />
Shailabimbarama Buddhist Temple in Dodanduwa.
    Sri Lanka_Shailabimbarama_Shailabimb...jpg
  • Shailabimbarama Buddhist Temple. Dodanduwa. The wall of this temple have some of the finest examples of temple mural painting.<br />
Shailabimbarama Buddhist Temple in Dodanduwa.
    Sri Lanka_Shailabimbarama_Shailabimb...jpg
  • The Kothduwa temple, or Koth Duwa Raja Maha Viharaya, is a Buddhist temple located on Kothduwa island on the Maduganga river in southern Sri Lanka.
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  • The Kothduwa temple, or Koth Duwa Raja Maha Viharaya, is a Buddhist temple located on Kothduwa island on the Maduganga river in southern Sri Lanka.
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  • Shailabimbaramaya Temple window. Dodanduwa.
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  • Sri Saddharmodaya Pirivena. Katukoliha, Induruwa.
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  • Sri Saddharmodaya Pirivena. Katukoliha, Induruwa.
    SL. Saddharmodaya Pirivena_-3301.jpg
  • The wall of this temple have some of the finest examples of temple mural painting.<br />
Shailabimbarama Buddhist Temple in Dodanduwa.
    Sri Lanka_Shailabimbarama_Shailabimb...jpg
  • Woman in doorway. <br />
The wall of this temple have some of the finest examples of temple mural painting.<br />
Shailabimbarama Buddhist Temple in Dodanduwa.
    Sri Lanka_Shailabimbarama_Shailabimb...jpg
  • The wall of this temple have some of the finest examples of temple mural painting.<br />
Shailabimbarama Buddhist Temple in Dodanduwa.
    Sri Lanka_Shailabimbarama_Shailabimb...jpg
  • The wall of this temple have some of the finest examples of temple mural painting.<br />
Shailabimbarama Buddhist Temple in Dodanduwa.
    Sri Lanka_Shailabimbarama_Shailabimb...jpg
  • The wall of this temple have some of the finest examples of temple mural painting.<br />
Shailabimbarama Buddhist Temple in Dodanduwa.
    Sri Lanka_Shailabimbarama_Shailabimb...jpg
  • Ridi Viharaya, has a series of caves and is home to some of the finest examples of Buddhist temple painting and sculpture.
    SRI LANKA. Ridi Viharaya_DSC0080.jpg
  • The interior of the image house.<br />
Kumarakanda Buddhist Temple. Dodanduwa.
    Sri Lanka_Kumarakanda Temple_Dodandu...jpg
  • Dagoba at a temple south of Galle.
    Sri Lanka. Stupa Temple.jpg
  • Dorabawila Temple
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  • Crest at a Buddhist Temple.
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  • Sri Sudharmaramaya Temple,
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  • The Buddhist Temple at Amblangoda.
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  • The Buddhist Temple at Amblangoda.
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  • The Buddhist Temple at Amblangoda.
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  • Subodharamaya temple has one of the finest collections of Buddhist temple paintings.
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  • Mamangeshwarar Temple festival.
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  • Aerial view of Dodanduwa Temple
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  • Sri Pushparama Maha Viharaya, Balapitiya. Interior by H. M. Mendis of Ahangama.
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  • Sri Pushparama Maha Viharaya, Balapitiya. Interior by H. M. Mendis of Ahangama.
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  • Sri Pushparama Maha Viharaya, Balapitiya. Interior by H. M. Mendis of Ahangama.
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  • Naguleswaran Madam, Keerimalai. Jaffna Peninsula.
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  • Naguleswaran Nadam, Keerimalai. Jaffna Peninsula.
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  • Sri Lanka.<br />
A traditional 'bissa' for storing harvested rice/paddy.
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  • House front, Dyke Street, Trincomalee town.
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  • Jaffna Peninsula. Exact location not know. I recall that this was on Pungitidivu Island.<br />
2004
    Sri Lanka. Selva Rani Villa, facade.jpg
  • Mosque Interior - note details on the capitols of the pillars.
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  • Ambalama pillar & ceiling.jpg
  • Noel E. Edirisinghe & Co. Cinnamon trader.<br />
House on Dam Street, near Hultsdorf. Colombo 2. Probably the last remaining unaltered house on this road in Colombo.
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  • Noel E. Edirisinghe & Co. Cinnamon trader.<br />
House on Dam Street, near Hultsdorf. Colombo 2. Probably the last remaining unaltered house on this road in Colombo.
    Sri Lanka_Cinnamon Traders office, C...jpg
  • Noel E. Edirisinghe & Co. Cinnamon trader.<br />
House on Dam Street, near Hultsdorf. Colombo 2. Probably the last remaining unaltered house on this road in Colombo.
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  • Krishna Barber Saloon, Pusselawa.<br />
(A3 12/2021)
    SRI LANKA. Saloon door - near Pussel...jpg
  • Trincomalee Town. House, No: 10, on Dyke Street.
    SRI LANKA. Dyke Street. Number 10 .jpg
  • A simple Ambalama near Hemmathagama
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  • Madiliya Ambalama at Hemmathagama.
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  • Window within a trellis screen.
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  • Detail of pillar and door in Ambalangoda. South Coast.
    Sri Lanka. Pillar, Ambalangoda old t...jpg
  • Conch shell and board - to be placed on the floor of a threshing ground for Paddy.
    Sri Lanka. Conch shell for threshing...jpg
  • Kandy town. Facade of an old house.
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  • Facade to a temple in the south.
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  • Detail of a window in a Hill Country tea town - near Agrapatana.
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  • House on a south coast road.
    Sri Lanka. House on south coast road.jpg
  • Trincomalee Town. House, No: 10, on Dyke Street.
    SRI LANKA. Dyke Street. Number 10 .tif
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