Historic Images of Sri Lanka
The Jami-Ul-Alfar Mosque in Pettah. Colombo, Sri Lanka.
The Jami Ul Alfar Mosque in Pettah (Right outside the Colombo Fort) is one of the oldest mosques in Colombo which was built by the Khan family of Bombay (Mumbai) in India.
Colombo Harbor Ceylon 1908 “Kolamba” (Anglicised “Colombo”) is a Sinhalese word; meaning port, ferry, harbor or haven. Colombo was originally a small seaport used by Moor, Arab, Persian and Chinese sailing vessels. Following the occupation of the coastal provinces of Ceylon by Portuguese, Colombo became the center of the Portuguese rulers and after the annexation […]
An old small size manual (Human Powered) crane with a pivoted boom at Colombo Docks dispatching Tea in 1885.