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Christian Reformed Church, Galle Road, Colombo Christian Reformed Church in Kalpitiya. 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 ...
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 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 ...
The Church of Ceylon with around 50,000 members, [4] is the second largest group of Christians in Sri Lanka, after the Roman Catholic Church with 1,600,000 members. Church and education [ edit ]
The oldest Protestant church in Sri Lanka is the Christian Reformed Church in Sri Lanka, formerly the Dutch Reformed Church in Sri Lanka, has over 30 congregations and more than 5,000 members. In 1842 the Church of Scotland established St. Andrew's Church, Colombo and in 1845 opened a second church in Kandy. These two Scottish church ...
The Church's Children’s Desk has attempted to promote the welfare of children in Sri Lanka. In June 1963, the British Conference passed a Resolution granting autonomy to the Methodist Church in Ceylon. The Deed of Foundation of the Ceylon Conference was signed in the Kollupitiya Methodist Church on 18 June 1964.
The work was centered on the Tamil-speaking Hindus in the tea estate region of central Sri Lanka. [2] In 1978, the churches were registered with the Sri Lankan government, [3] and in 1998, the LCMS resident missionaries were withdrawn from the country. [4] The name Lanka Lutheran Church was adopted in about the year 2000. [3]
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