Ancient Ketapitiya Rajamaha Tampita Viharaya

At the main junction of Ketapitiya, in the Menikdiwela area between Pilimathalawa and Rambukkana, stands a Tampita Viharaya of an unusual kind: the raised image house is enclosed within a two-storey brick-and-mortar building rather than left open on stone pillars. The upper floor rests on massive timber beams carried by brick arches, and a circumambulatory path runs around the inner sanctum. The ground floor serves as a preaching hall, or Bana Maduwa; a carved wooden doorway in the Sooriyawanka style, worked with floral motifs, leads to the shrine above. The building measures roughly 11.2 by 7.5 metres, with the inner sanctum itself about 5.4 by 3.7 metres.

Inside, a seated Buddha image sits beneath a flame-halo combining sun and moon motifs, flanked by standing Buddha statues larger than life and by depictions of the chief disciples Sariputta and Moggallana. The walls carry paintings from the Kandyan period.

No record gives a construction date or names a founder or patron. The two-storey enclosed form is consistent with the Kandyan Kingdom era, but that is an inference from the architecture, not a documented fact.