Dutch Stables Ambalangoda

Dutch Stables Ambalangoda Dutch Stables Ambalangoda Dutch Stables Ambalangoda

Dutch Stables Ambalangoda is an old dutch building in Galle District, Sri Lanka. Presently it stands adjacent to the land where the old Ambalangoda rest-house was located.Evidence is there to show that this building is a work of the 18th century. A plaque fixed on the front wall of the building reveals that this was constructed in 1750 by a Dutch named Adriaan Ootdyk Ranchagoda, 2015) Built by Adriaan Oostdyk, under-Koopman, Superintendent of the Galle Corle, 1750.

Adriaan Oostdyk was a high official in the Dutch East India Company (VOC) at the time when the church was built. For his duties, he had to visit places in Ambalangoda, Kosgoda, and Bentota and he used the old rest house in Ambalangoda as his temporary residence Lewis, 1913) Initially, the building was used as a village church and the services were regularly held in Sinhala by the schoolmaster proponents and in Dutch during their church and school visitations by the clergymen from Galle. It is said that the floor of the church was paved with several tombstones but none of these are now to be seen as the floor had been filled with earth later, the building was used as a stable and as a court-house.

This ancient inn was operated at the beginning of this century, but later it was closed and the building where the inn was housed was completely demolished in 2008.

About Galle District

Galle is a city situated on the southwestern tip of Sri Lanka, 119 km from Colombo.Galle is the best example of a fortified city built by Europeans in south and Southeast Asia, showing the interaction between European architectural styles and south Asian traditions. The Galle fort is a world heritage site and the largest remaining fortress in Asia built by European occupiers.

Galle is a sizeable town, by Sri Lankan standards, and has a population of 91,000, the majority of whom are of Sinhalese ethnicity. There is also a large Sri Lankan Moor minority, particularly in the fort area, which descend from Arab merchants that settled in the ancient port of Galle.

About Southern Province

The Southern Province of Sri Lanka is a small geographic area consisting of the districts of Galle, Matara and Hambantota. Subsistence farming and fishing is the main source of income for the vast majority of the people of this region.

Important landmarks of the Southern Province include the wildlife sanctuaries of the Yala and Udawalawe National Parks, the holy city of Kataragama, and the ancient cities of Tissamaharama, Kirinda and Galle. (Although Galle is an ancient city, almost nothing survives from before the Portuguese invasion.) During the Portuguese period there were two famous Sinhalese poets called Andare who was from Dickwella and Gajaman Nona who was from Denipitiya in Matara District, composing poems on common man.

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