Hindu Temple interior. Evening service. Ruhunu Maha Kataragama Devalaya, Sri Lanka. Maha devala puja.

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Kataragama, Katharagama, Katirkamam or Khidr-gama is a popular multi-religious place of pilgrimage of Hindu, Buddhist, Muslim and Vedda communities of Sri Lanka. Location: 228km south of Colombo. Kataragama is one of Sri Lanka's 16 principal places of Buddhist pilgrimage, and is also an important shrine for other religions - the Kataragama God predates the Buddha of 2500 years ago, and was originally inherited from the indigenous Vedda forest dwellers. To complicate things further, there's a Muslim shrine and the Tamil Hindus revere the site as the home of their own warrior God, Skanda.

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Location: Kataragama, Sri Lanka, South Asia
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