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The Rajagiriya Grama Niladhari Division has a Buddhist majority (51.5%) and a significant Muslim population (34.3%). In comparison, the Sri Jayawardanapura Kotte Divisional Secretariat (which contains the Rajagiriya Grama Niladhari Division) has a Buddhist majority (77.1%) [2
The area was originally known as Welikada and stretched from the Ethul Kotte bridge to the tram terminus at Borella. The Welikada Prison was originally within the village limits. The name Rajagiriya came from the former governor's residence, the grounds of which extended from Madinnagoda Road in the north to the Cotta road in the south.
The Welikada North Grama Niladhari Division has a Buddhist majority (68.9%) and a significant Other Christian population (10.0%). In comparison, the Sri Jayawardanapura Kotte Divisional Secretariat (which contains the Welikada North Grama Niladhari Division) has a Buddhist majority (77.1%) [ 2 ]
Four separate football clubs (Lido, Welikada Progress, Welikada Red Star and Welikada United) once used the EW Perera Park grounds at Welikada, Rajagiriya where a pavilion was constructed in the 1970s. However, when the grounds were destroyed by the JR Jayawardene regime in the late 1970s, the football clubs disappeared. Football continued to ...
Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte is located at the south east of Colombo. The Kotte Urban Development Council was created in the 1930s, with a modern building at Rajagiriya.It was succeeded by the Kotte Urban Council, which had a large section of its area removed and tagged onto the Colombo Municipal Council ward of Borella while the Battaramulla urban council was dissolved and a small section of ...
Welikadawatte, a middle-class housing estate in Rajagiriya, Sri Lanka, was a result of the first co-operative housing scheme in Sri Lanka. In the mid-1950s, Dr. Seneka Bibile, together with Herbert Keuneman, 'Bonnie' Fernando, Anil and Jeanne Moonesinghe and other members of the radical intelligentsia, founded Sri Lanka's first co-operative housing scheme, the Gothatuwa Building Society.
Ward no. 3 — Welikada-Nawala (includes Bandaranaikepura and Royal Gardens, the Municipal offices and the western half of Nawala and of Koswatte, bounded by the Cotta Road on the north, the Heen Ela canal on the west, the Diyawanna Oya canal on the south and the Nawala Road on the east).
Kotte Divisional Secretariat is a Divisional Secretariat of Colombo District, of Western Province, Sri Lanka.. The Divisional Secretariat is larger than the Dehiwala, Rathmalana and Moratuwa Divisional Secretariats.