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Jami-Ul-Alfar Mosque

This historic mosque is a popular tourist site. Jami-Ul-Alfar Mosque was built in 1909 by the Pettah Muslim community to fulfill their required five-times-daily prayer and Jummah on Fridays. It is one of the oldest mosques in Colombo.

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Address: Second Cross Street in Pettah

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Arunthathee Vihaar Vegetarian Family Restaurant
Vegetarian-only Indian Restaurant in Downtown Colombo. Serves authentic Indian food at very good prices.
Every day 7:00-22:00
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The Dutch Period Museum
Nice but very small museum documenting Dutch colonial rule in Sri Lanka. Houses Dutch-inspired artifacts.
Sat-Thu 9AM-5PMChild Rs 300, adult Rs 500 (2013)
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The Pettah Market
Fruits to clothes to electronics at wholesale prices. You have to bargain extensively and it is recommended that you take a local you trust along with you. Even if you don't buy anything, Pettah, or Colombo 11 is an experience in itself being a very typical, loud and crowded oriental market place full of all sorts of odds, ends and junk. Each street in the market has its own speciality, for example, in 1st Cross Street you can find electrical items, 2nd Cross Street has jewellery and so on. In the Pettah Market area, some street vendors actively ask passers-by, foreigners and locals to view products they are selling though polite refusal is generally accepted.
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Wolvendaal church
One of the oldest churches built during the Dutch era in 1749. The interior is decorated with Dutch furniture with the wooden carved pews, chairs, pulpit and lecterns.