The Grand Mosque of Colombo is a mosque located in Colombo, Sri Lanka.

The mosque has a documented history that goes back over 500 years. The earliest European reference to the mosque appears in a description from November 1505 when the commander of a Portuguese expedition anchored in Colombo bay. In 1520 following an attack on the Portuguese trading post, established earlier by Lopo de Brito, the Captain of Portuguese Ceylon, the King Bhuvanaikabahu of Kotte burnt the town (Colombo) along with two large mosques. The mosque was, however, rebuilt on the same site soon after. In the 1820s, the mosque was redesigned and rebuilt by Malay architect Muhammad Balangkaya, the son of a Malay noble of the Royal House of Gowa (present-day Sulawesi, Indonesia),

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Grand Mosque of Colombo

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