Durayappah Stadium

Durayappah Stadium is a stadium in Northern Province, Sri Lanka. Durayappah Stadium is situated nearby to Jaffna Public Library, as well as near the ruins Jaffna Fort.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Jaffna Public Library and Jaffna Fort.

Jaffna Public Library

Library

Photo: Anton 17, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Jaffna Public Library is located in Jaffna, Sri Lanka. It is one of Jaffna's 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. Jaffna Public Library is situated 150 metres northeast of Durayappah Stadium.

Jaffna Fort

Ruins

Photo: Rehman, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Jaffna Fort is a fort built by the Portuguese at Jaffna, Sri Lanka, in 1618 under Phillippe de Oliveira following the Portuguese invasion of Jaffna. The fort is located near the coastal village of Gurunagar. Jaffna Fort is situated 300 metres northwest of Durayappah Stadium.

Jaffna Teaching Hospital

Hospital

Jaffna Teaching Hospital is a government hospital in Jaffna, Sri Lanka. It is the leading hospital in the Northern Province and the only hospital in the province controlled by the central government in Colombo. Jaffna Teaching Hospital is situated 610 metres north of Durayappah Stadium.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Jaffna and Nallur.

Jaffna

Photo: Gane Kumaraswamy, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Jaffna District is the northernmost region of Sri Lanka, and one of the oldest inhabited places on the island. It is populated mainly by Tamil speaking people.

Nallur

Town

Nallur is an affluent suburb in Jaffna, Sri Lanka. It is located 3 km south from Jaffna city centre. Nallur is most famous for Nallur Kandaswamy temple, one of Sri Lanka's most sacred place of pilgrimage for Sri Lankan Hindus.

Ariyalai

Town

Photo: உமாபதி, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Ariyalai is a suburb of the city of Jaffna in northern Sri Lanka. The suburb is divided into eight village officer divisions whose combined population was 10,750 at the 2012 census. Ariyalai is situated 4 km east of Durayappah Stadium.

Durayappah Stadium

Type: Stadium
Categories: recreation area, tourist attraction, and tourism
Location: Northern Province, Sri Lanka, South Asia, Asia
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Latitude

9.6613° or 9° 39′ 41″ north

Longitude

80.01082° or 80° 0′ 39″ east

Open location code

6MX2M266+G8

OpenStreetMap ID

way 543642420

OpenStreetMap feature

leisure=stadium

GeoNames ID

7324172

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