Gallery
Anuradhapura
The first capital — stupas, monastic complexes and the reservoirs that made them possible.
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Ruwanwelisaya, built under Dutugemunu in the second century BCE. Achira Hansaja · CC BY-SA 4.0 -
Jetavanaramaya — once among the tallest brick structures ever built. Kondephy · CC BY-SA 4.0 -
Thuparamaya, traditionally the first stupa raised on the island. Nipuna Gamage · CC BY-SA 4.0 -
Abhayagiri, centre of a monastery that housed several thousand monks. Nicolas Chadeville · CC BY 4.0 -
The Samadhi statue, third or fourth century CE. Cherubino · CC BY-SA 3.0 -
The Jaya Sri Maha Bodhi, tended continuously for over two thousand years. Mr Jörg Reuter · CC BY 2.0 -
The carved panel at Isurumuniya known as the Lovers. S.G.Seyone · CC BY-SA 3.0 -
A sandakada pahana — the carved moonstone at the foot of a shrine stairway. Wishva Dilshan · CC BY-SA 4.0 -
Tissa Wewa, among the earliest reservoirs of the Anuradhapura system. Krankman · CC BY 3.0