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Welgamvehera: A sacred place that promotes unity-by M.A.R.Manukulasooriya, Hiriyala group corr. Source:Sundayobserver Welgamvehera is a historical Buddhist Temple in Kanniya in the Trincomalee district. To reach this sacred site, you have to travel seven miles on the Trincomalee-Anuradhapura road, turn South and travel another three miles. This sacred site is famous as a site that had been protected during the Anuradhapura and Polonnaruwa eras. There are shrine rooms, Buddha statues, Guard stones and Dagobas belonging to the period from the Anuradhapura era to the 12th Century, in the temple. A notice board put up by the Department of Archaeology at the site states the following. “The founder of this temple is unknown. It is stated in the King Bhathiya’s ( 143-167 A,D,) stone inscription found in the top of the nearby hillock that the old name was Welagama Abagara Vihar. With the invasion of Cholas from India in 993 A.D. ...