This sacred city was established around a cutting from the 'tree of enlightenment', the Buddha's fig tree, brought there in the 3rd century B.C. by Sanghamitta, the founder of an order of Buddhist ...

Anuradhapura is the capital city of North Central Province of Sri Lanka. It is one of the ancient capitals of Sri Lanka and lies 205 km north of the current capital Colombo. The city came up ...

Our ancient capital city of Anuradhapura was originally built as a carefully planned and zoned city. This fact has been clearly recorded in our chronicles. This makes clear that the profession of City ...

The diocese covers a land area of 10,258.5 square kilometers, the diocesan territory includes Anuradhapura ... Muslims and Christians. The city also had some of the most complex irrigation systems of ...

The twenty fifth competition in the series of the CIMA Spellmaster competitions being conducted islandwide was held in the historical cities of Anuradhapura and Polonnaruwa. The competition in ...

Prime Minister Dr. Harini Amarasuriya stated that UNESCO’s initiative to protect the historic Sacred City of Anuradhapura should ... In Sri Lanka, the ancient kingdoms of Anuradhapura and Polonnaruwa ...

It is the foremost of the Island’s ancient cities with extensive Buddhist monuments. South Indian invaders, lured by the city’s prosperity attacked it from time to time. The Chola king, Rajaraja I ...