Best places: Buddhist temples in Galle District

Unique Buddhist temple with a circular deck for sweeping views of the ocean & surrounding landscape.

Old Buddhist temple complex built into rock formations featuring many statues & a serene atmosphere.

👍👍 ancient Buddhist temple and bo tree. almost all people come to worship and observe.

👍 Its a very peaceful and calm place in a island. There was a bridge to reach this place. I went there by boat. Its a must visit place who is having a madu river tour. Its a good place to bring your family. Dont forget to meet the monk. Able to have Beautiful 360° views

👍👍 This Buddhist temple is situated inside the World Heritage site Galle Dutch Fort . Facing the Indian ocean it has beautiful views. A calm and tranquil place worthy of a visit if you are in Galle Dutch Fort.

👍👍 It's most popular location for Worshiping of Devol deviyo. Seenigama is a small village on the south-west coast on the main Colombo- Galle road. It's located just before Hikkaduwa. The Seenigama Devalaya (shrine) is on a small island short way from the beach. The Seenigama Devalaya dedicated to t...

👍👍 Close to this Bentota river lies an ancient temple named Bentota Galapatha Raja Maha Viharaya. This temple is believed to hold the tooth relic of Maha Kashyapa Maharahathan Wahanse in dageba. It is good to come here once in a while to create some merits after offering some pooja and worship as a Bud...

👍👍 Calm and relaxing place

👍👍 Very very beautiful temple in Ambalangoda area.... Very famous for wooden Buddha statues... And also use get wedding photography.... Every of carvings done by Sri Lankan artists by his hands...

👍👍 Monastery is situated in a very calm and quiet place, nearly 1 Km away from the busy Koggala city. Ideal place for meditation and relax your mind.

👍👍 Kumarakanda Temple is one of the well preserved colonial architecture influenced buddhist temples in Sri Lanka which is dated back to 16th century. It is located in Galle district, closer to a well known tourist destination: Hikkaduwa. Temple is build around 1765 AD and it has decorative buildings...

👍👍 Calm & Religious place

👍👍 One of the most historical places❤️

👍👍 Calm and quite place.

👍👍 Amazing temple with an interesting history.. unique because one of the four temples in Sri Lanka with a octagonal image house . The full name is the Kataluwa Ranwella Purana Viharaya. Other than the amazing and unusual murals it has the first printing press used to print Buddhist literature.

🫤 Situated in the Galle district, Thelwaththa village, this temple is famous by the name of Thotagamuwa Rajamaha Viharaya. Sccording to legends, the history of this temple dates back to the time of Vijayabhahu the first (1070-1110BC) of polonnaruwa period. Buildings of this temple have been damaged wi...

👍👍 Ancient historical buddhist temple.There you can see a simble of a gun is drawn on the temple. That is why the temple is known as Thuwakkugalawatta . There are so many historical item and ancient paintings. The bo tree is in the highest place of the temple.

👍👍 One of the best Temple here in Hikkaduwa. You can enjoy the silence inside, noone comes after you and just try to ask for "Donation" like most of temples for tourism. You can do it yourself if you love to. Beautiful temple with many statues, you can feel yourself, you can set your mind empty and go...

👍👍 Bentota is a resort town on Sri Lanka’s southwest coast. Its long Bentota Beach stretches north, where it becomes a sandy strip known as Paradise Island, parallel to Bentota Lagoon. Eventhough this town now best known for its beaches, history of this town goes as far as 2nd century  BC and has been...

😠 Watch out for the scam! The monk shows you a book where all donations are written down. By accident we found out, that he always adds one or more zeros at the amount of the previous donators to make you feel bad if you just want to donate few hundred rupees. We gave him 200 rupees and when the coupl...