This is a very famous Buddhist temple in Panadura. It was built in 1810 and then it was called as Galkanda Viharaya. In 1890 it was renamed as "Rankoth Viharaya". The shrine room is very beautiful and all the walls have wall paintings on them. Eminent English poet and scholar Sir Edwin Arnold had visited the temple in 1886 whence he discussed the idea to restore the Buddhagaya back to Buddhists. #LetsRecordMonuments

This is one of the oldest and most beautiful temples in Panadura. It's worth visiting here. Please consider wearing white color clothes that are comfortable and not too tight clothes when visiting Buddhist temples in Sri Lanka.

This temple is one of the oldest Buddhist temples in panadura. Crowd is usuals around panadura and also there is a Sunday school. If you are visiting there by a car, you can park your vehicle inside the temples car park.

This is NOT a foreigner- friendly temple. There is NO monk in it. It’s run by local ‘gangsters’ . There are in-temple dogs which don’t bark but DO bite. It occurred that foreigners were bitten. Be careful!

It's one of the oldest temples in Panadura. You can locate it at your right hand side of the road when moving towards Galle, after passing the Pnadura clock tower junction.

Calm place. You can find architecture related to english era. There are steps around 30 for upper part in temple. Think about this when taking disable people. There is small car park infront of the temple and bigger one in behind. To find the behind one you need to go around the road.

Very calm place middle in the town.

Its a very ancient Buddhist temple. Painting that you can see here is the one and only paint in the country. It shows persons travail through a cart that pushing by a stick.

An ancient Buddhist temple in Panadura. It’s about 100 above years old. It’s located center of panadura town. Therefore everyone knows about the temple. Many scholars have been begotten from there. And also as famous debate of panadura debate happened closed to this temple in Panadura. So it’s one of most influential & ancient temples in Panadura.

Well known and one of the oldest temple in Panadura area. Still conduct poya day programs and evening gilanpasa Pooja. Temple is a landmark in the area and it affiliated the first Buddhist school as well.

Everything great. But there is no shadow place to worship bo tree closely, but you can sit at shrine house which issue occured of sittibg backward towards to the reclining buddha statue. Gaint pagoda covered sun in the morning helps. Large Vishnu God statue brings something can not express🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

One of oldest temple in Panadura Area

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Calm and quiet place. Very peaceful place

The oldest Buddhist temple in the area

More than 200 years old

One of the oldest ( Little over 200 years )

Greatest buddhist temple in panadura

A very quiet place in the morning and evenings. Good for meditation. Need to preserve the paintings inside the temple.

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A peaceful place to in the night time to be spiritual

Very peaceful temple in the area

Largest Buddhist template in Panadura. This is an old template. Beautiful paintings inside.

It is hard to believe that there exist such a calm place in this busy Panadura town. But unfortunately the chief monk in somewhat unfriendly

Cool And Calm. If you want to cool down. This is the right place