Dawatagaha Jumma Masjid Colombo

Sri Lanka mempunyai penduduk Muslim yang agak signifikan saiznya. Islam merupakan agama ketiga terbesar dengan Muslim di Sri Lanka sekitar 10%. Makanya banyak masjid terdapat di sana. Salah satu masjid yang ada di Colombo adalah Dawatagaha Jumma Masjid. Satu keunikan Masjid Dawatagaha adalah ia bukan sahaja dikunjungi oleh Muslim malah oleh warga Buddha, Hindu dan juga Kristian. Pengunjung warga bukan Islam tersebut turut melakukan nazar menurut kepercayaan mereka masing-masing. Keadaan tersebut mungkin pelik dan menimbulkan pertanyaan dikalangan pelawat Muslim luar Sri Lanka.

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Shaikh Usman Waliyullah Shrine The Dewatagaha mosque is one of the more prominent mosques in Colombo - its lovely exterior is almost an iconic part of the architecture near Town Hall. It is also partly a shrine to a Saint from the 19th century - Shaikh Usman Waliyullah - and Muslims and non-Muslims alike visit to pay their respects.

 Dawatagaha Jumma Masjid, Colombo

Baca "Mosque of many faith". sunday times 2018 - link.

Dawatagaha Mosque. serenedib - link.

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Hamilton Canal Colombo

Membaca catatan pelawat yang mengunjungi Sri Lanka mereka bercerita tentang beberapa lokasi menarik di sana. Ada lokasi yang menjadi femes kerana ciri sejarah. Antaranya adalah Hamilton Canal.

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The Hamilton Canal (or the Dutch Canal, as it is sometimes known) is a waterway that stretches for 14.5 kilometres between the town of Puttalam and the city of Colombo, and that also passes through the city of Negombo. When the Dutch took over Sri Lanka, they established one of their capitals in Colombo (the other being in Galle). They had assumed that the marshlands in nearby Muthurajawela presented ideal conditions for growing paddy rice, but eventually discovered that the tides coming in from the sea drowned their crops in salt water.

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The Portuguese constructed the original canal in the 17th century, but it was the traders from the Dutch East India Company who expanded the canal, in the next century. The Dutch settlers also used the canal to transport pearls and spices from the north to Colombo.

The canal was constructed by the British in 1802 and completed in 1804. It was designed to drain salt water out of the Muthurajawela wetlands. The canal was named after Gavin Hamilton, the Government Agent of Revenue and Commerce.

 

Hamilton Canal, Negombo, SL

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"Hamilton Canal". loves sri lanka - link.

The Hamilton Canal: A conduit for spice in the past and garbage in the present.  oceanlust - link.

 

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