Jaffna District
Nallur Divisional Secretariat
Ariyalai South East

Ariyalai

Ariyalai is a suburb of the city of in northern . The suburb is divided into eight village officer divisions whose combined population was 10,750 at the 2012 census.
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  • Type: Town with 12,000 residents
  • Description: suburb in Jaffna, Northern, Sri Lanka
  • Also known as: “Arialai”
  • Postal code: 40000

Places of Interest

Highlights include Nallur Kandaswamy temple and St. Mary’s Cathedral.

Hindu temple
Photo: Thivagaranp, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Nallur Kandaswamy Kovil is a , located in , , Sri Lanka. The presiding deity is Murugan in the form of the divine spear vel in the sanctum, the primary shrine, and in other forms, namely, Shanmugar, Muthukumaraswami, Valli Kanthar with consorts Valli and Deivayanai, and Dandayuddhapani, sans consorts in secondary shrines in the temple. is situated 2½ km northwest of Ariyalai.

Church
Photo: Ghostface Buddha, CC BY-SA 2.0.
St. Mary's Cathedral is the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Jaffna located in Gurunagar, a suburb of in northern . The cathedral is also known locally as Periye Kovil. is situated 2½ km west of Ariyalai.

Library
Photo: Anton 17, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is located in , . It is one of Jaffna's most notable landmarks, and is run by the Jaffna Municipal Council. The library was built in 1933 and is Sri Lanka's second main public Library, only rivalled by Colombo Public Library During the early 1980s, it was one of the biggest libraries in Asia, containing over 97,000 books and manuscripts. is situated 4 km west of Ariyalai.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Nallur and Navatkuli.

Town
is an affluent suburb in , . It is located 3 km south from Jaffna city centre. is most famous for , one of Sri Lanka's most sacred place of pilgrimage for Sri Lankan Hindus. is situated 2½ km northwest of Ariyalai.

Town
is a town in , , . It is located about 6.5 km from . consists of three grama niladhari divisions in the : West, East, and Kaithady . is situated 4 km east of Ariyalai.

Photo: Gane Kumaraswamy, CC BY-SA 2.0.
District is the northernmost region of , and one of the oldest inhabited places on the island. It is populated mainly by Tamil speaking people.

Ariyalai

Latitude
9.65909° or 9° 39′ 33″ north
Longitude
80.04766° or 80° 2′ 52″ east
Population
12,000
Elevation
10 metres (33 feet)
Open location code
6MX2M25X+J3
Open­Street­Map ID
node 4439958432
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
1250966
Wiki­data ID
Q4791174
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In Other Languages

From Bulgarian to Tamil—“Ariyalai” goes by many names.
  • Bulgarian: “Ариялаи”
  • Cebuano: “Ariyalai”
  • Dutch: “Ariyalai”
  • Irish: “Ariyalai”
  • Malayalam: “അരിയാലൈ”
  • Sinhala: “අරියාලෙයි”
  • Sinhala: “අරියාලේ”
  • Swedish: “Ariyalai”
  • Tamil: “அரியாலை”
  • Tamil: “பிரப்பங்குளம் மகாமாரி அம்மன் கோயில்”

Localities in the Area

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Ariyalai Sivan Kovil and Ariyalai Sri Parvathi School Play Ground.

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Ariyalai”. Photo: உமாபதி, CC BY-SA 3.0.