Kataragama
Kataragama is a pilgrimage town sacred to Buddhist, Hindu and indigenous Vedda people of Sri Lanka. People from South India also go there to worship. The town has the Kataragama temple, a shrine dedicated to Skanda Kumara also known as Kataragama deviyo.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 20,000 residents
- Description: city of Kataragama in Uva Province, Sri Lanka
- Also known as: “Katirkrāmam”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Kataragama Temple.
Kataragama Temple
Hindu temple
Photo: Ghostface Buddha, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Kataragama temple in Kataragama, Sri Lanka, is a temple complex dedicated to Buddhist guardian deity Kataragama deviyo and Hindu War God Murugan. It is one of the few religious sites in Sri Lanka that is venerated by the Buddhists, Hindus, Muslims and the Vedda people.
Kataragama
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Katharagama Divisional Secretariat, Monaragala District, Uva, Sri Lanka, South Asia, Asia
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Latitude
6.4136° or 6° 24′ 49″ northLongitude
81.3324° or 81° 19′ 57″ eastPopulation
20,000Elevation
48 metres (157 feet)Open location code
6MR3C87J+CXOpenStreetMap ID
node 917948834OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
1241076Wikidata ID
Q302558
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Thai—“Kataragama” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Kataragama”
- German: “Kataragama”
- Irish: “Kataragama”
- Italian: “Kataragama”
- Japanese: “カタラガマ”
- Malayalam: “കതരഗാമ”
- Malayalam: “കതിർഗാമം”
- Mingrelian: “კატარაგამა”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kataragama”
- Norwegian: “Kataragama”
- Persian: “کاتاراگاما”
- Portuguese: “Kataragama”
- Russian: “Катарагама”
- Sinhala: “කතරගම”
- Swedish: “Kataragama”
- Tamil: “கதிர்காமம்”
- Tatar: “Катарагама”
- Thai: “กตรคาม”
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