St. Pauls Church

There´s a familiar building next to the temple of Natha Devale amidst elephants and Buddhist temples: a church! In a country that did not keep the religion of the original settlers (like the Latin American countries), a church is an interesting thing to see here. The island was colonized by the Portuguese, Dutch and finally the British, who began to build the church of St. Paul in 1843, nearly 30 years after Sri Lanka was colonized. It was later enlarged first in 1878 and then again in 1928. It was originally a church for the army and the British troops who were stationed in Kandy. It´s rather