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Construction start. 1851. Colombo Street is a main road of the city of Christchurch, New Zealand. It runs south-north through the centre of Christchurch with a break at Cathedral Square. As with many other central Christchurch streets, it is named for a colonial Anglican bishopric, Colombo, Sri Lanka in what at the time was known as Ceylon.
Sydenham Heritage Church, originally known as the Colombo Street Methodist Church or Colombo Street Wesleyan Church or Colombo Road Wesleyan Church was a heritage-listed stone church building located in Sydenham, an inner suburb Christchurch, New Zealand. [1] It was registered as an "Historic Place – Category II " by the New Zealand Historic ...
Sydenham. / 43.550°S 172.633°E / -43.550; 172.633. Sydenham is an inner suburb of Christchurch, New Zealand, two kilometres south of the city centre, on and around the city's main street, Colombo Street. It is a residential, retail and light industrial suburb.
Colombo was the capital of the coastal areas controlled by the Portuguese, the Dutch and the British from the 1700s to 1815 when the British gained control of the entire island following the Kandyan convention. From then until the 1980s the national capital of the island was Colombo.
The Grand Oriental Hotel was officially opened on 5 November 1875, and had 154 luxury and semi-luxury rooms. [4] The owners were Colombo Hotels Company Ltd, [5][6] who advertised it to potential customers with the claim that it was "the only fully European owned and fully equipped hotel in the East" and "managed by experienced Europeans". [4]
Colombo Borella Ananda College, Colombo: 1AB 7920 367 Colombo Borella Nalanda College, Colombo: 1AB 7502 247 Colombo Borella Asoka College, Colombo: 1AB 4000 150 Colombo Borella D. S. Senanayake College, Colombo 1AB 6391 236 Colombo Borella Thurstan College, Colombo 1AB 5357 286 Colombo Borella Ananda Balika Vidyalaya, Colombo 1AB 2254 115 Colombo
Lotus Tower (Sinhala: නෙළුම් කුළුණ, romanized: Nelum Kuluna; Tamil: தாமரைக் கோபுரம், romanized: Tāmaraik Kōpuram), also referred to as Colombo Lotus Tower, is a 351.5 m (1,153 ft) tall tower, located in Colombo, Sri Lanka. [1][2] It has been called a symbolic landmark of Sri Lanka. [3] As of ...
Wolvendaal Church is the only Dutch Church on the island that has been continually in use, with in 2018 services in Tamil, Sinhalese and English every Sunday. [9] A similar Dutch Reformed Church building is the Groote Kerk in Galle. In January 2005 the Dutch Reformed Church (DRC) established the Wolvendaal Foundation to preserve the church's ...