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The Christian Reformed Church of Sri Lanka currently has 31 churches and over 5,000 adherents. The church office is located in Galle Road, Colombo. [6] [7] The Christian Reformed Church of Sri Lanka owns several historical church buildings, e.g. in Kalpitiya, Matara and Galle.
The first services were held on the island in 1796 and missionaries were sent to Ceylon to begin work in 1818. [5] The Church now has two dioceses, one in Colombo (covering the Western, Southern, Eastern, Northern and Uva provinces and Ratnapura, Nuwara Eliya and Puttalam districts) and the other in Kurunegala (covering Kurunegala, Kandy, Matale and Kegalla, Anuradapura, Polonnaruwa, districts).
The Methodist Church, known for some noted educators, set up many schools in Sri Lanka, including: Richmond College, was started in 1814 as The Galle School – the first Wesleyan Methodist school in Sri Lanka and Asia, and was converted to a High School in 1876 and re-named Richmond College in 1882; [9]
The Ceylon Evangelical Lutheran Church is a confessional Lutheran church in Sri Lanka, and the only Lutheran denomination registered with the Sri Lankan government. [21] The church consists of more than a dozen congregations or mission stations, mainly concentrated in the tea plantation regions of Nuwara Eliya , Central Province.
The name Lanka Lutheran Church was adopted in about the year 2000. [3] In 2001, the Lanka Lutheran Church became a partner church of the LCMS [3] [5] and joined the International Lutheran Council. It also joined the Lutheran World Federation, reporting a membership of 1,200. [6] The church lost its government registration in about 2007.
The Dutch Reformed Church is currently known as the Christian Reformed Church of Sri Lanka. [7] [8] The church has several locations throughout the Colombo area. Wolvendaal Church is the only Dutch church on the island that has been continually in use, with in 2018 services in Tamil, Sinhalese and English every Sunday. [9] A similar Dutch ...
Churches in Matara, Sri Lanka (1 P) N. Churches in Negombo (5 P) Churches in Nuwara Eliya (3 P) This page was last edited on 3 February 2025, at 16:27 (UTC). Text is ...
Roman Catholic churches in Sri Lanka (7 C, 11 P) This page was last edited on 22 April 2019, at 15:57 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...