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Annual Kelani Duruthu Perahera today Source:island.lk The Annual Kelaniya Duruthu Perahera at the Kelaniya Raja Maha Vihara will be held today (16). A press release issued by the Kelani Rajamaha Viharastha Sanwardhana Sabha said that the historic Kelaniya Duruthu Maha Perahera had its origins in the year 1927, due largely to the efforts of that great Philanthropist Don Walter Wijewardene, son of Helana Wijewardene Lamathani of Sedawatte. The release signed by Chief Basnayake Nilame of the Kelaniya Raja Maha Viharaya said: “This Religious Cultural pageant has evolved over the years to become the country’s most elaborate and grandest low country pageant in its category. Kelaniya Rajamaha Viharaya is the most sacred temple in the Western Province of Sri Lanka since the Buddha’s sojourn here during his third historic visit to Sri Lanka. It celebrates this event annually in the ‘Duruthu Poya’ during January by conducting a historic, traditional and cultural ...