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Christian Reformed Church, Galle Road, Colombo Christian Reformed Church in Kalpitiya. The Christian Reformed Church of Sri Lanka currently has 31 churches and over 5,000 adherents. The church office is located in Galle Road, Colombo. [6] [7] The Christian Reformed Church of Sri Lanka owns several historical church buildings, e.g. in Kalpitiya ...
The Ceylon Evangelical Lutheran Church is a confessional Lutheran church in Sri Lanka, and the only Lutheran denomination registered with the Sri Lankan government. [21] The church consists of more than a dozen congregations or mission stations, mainly concentrated in the tea plantation regions of Nuwara Eliya , Central Province.
The first services were held on the island in 1796 and missionaries were sent to Ceylon to begin work in 1818. [3] The Church now has two dioceses, one in Colombo (covering the Western, Southern, Eastern, Northern and Uva provinces and Ratnapura, Nuwara Eliya and Puttalam districts) and the other in Kurunegala (covering Kurunegala, Kandy, Matale and Kegalla, Anuradapura, Polonnaruwa, districts).
The Dutch Reformed Church is currently known as the Christian Reformed Church of Sri Lanka. [7] [8] The church has several locations throughout the Colombo area. 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 ...
The work was centered on the Tamil-speaking Hindus in the tea estate region of central Sri Lanka. [2] In 1978, the churches were registered with the Sri Lankan government, [3] and in 1998, the LCMS resident missionaries were withdrawn from the country. [4] The name Lanka Lutheran Church was adopted in about the year 2000. [3]
The cathedral was consecrated on 7 November 1973 [3] and has subsequently been used for all the Church of Ceylon's major religious ceremonies, including the consecration of all the bishops of Ceylon. The cathedral is based on the traditional style of Sri Lanka architecture, in this case the hexagonal form of a Buddhist temple, using modern ...
In 1947, the churches of South India united to form the new Church of South India. The churches in North India and Pakistan followed soon after. Burma and Bangladesh formed their own church. Sri Lanka therefore became extraprovincial within the Anglican Communion under the metropolitical authority of the Archbishop of Canterbury.
The Church's Children’s Desk has attempted to promote the welfare of children in Sri Lanka. In June 1963, the British Conference passed a Resolution granting autonomy to the Methodist Church in Ceylon. The Deed of Foundation of the Ceylon Conference was signed in the Kollupitiya Methodist Church on 18 June 1964.