Temples & Shrines · Polonnaruwa period

Lankatilaka Image House

Polonnaruwa District

Lankatilaka Image House
Bernard Gagnon · CC BY-SA 3.0

A brick image house of the twelfth century, its walls still standing to a considerable height and enclosing a standing Buddha figure of about 13 metres, now headless.

The building shows how ambitious brick construction had become: walls four metres thick, a vaulted roof now lost, and decorative brickwork imitating a multi-storeyed palace facade on the exterior.

Location

7.9585° N, 81.0003° E

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