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Places

The reservoirs, stupas, temples and ancient cities that the rest of this archive describes.

Temples & Shrines · Kandyan period

Sri Dalada Maligawa

The temple housing the relic of the Buddha's tooth, in the Kandyan royal complex. Possession of the relic was for centuries…

Kandy District

Temples & Shrines · Kandyan period

Embekka Devalaya

A fourteenth-century shrine whose drummers' hall carries the most celebrated wood carving in Sri Lanka. The timber pillars are…

Kandy District