The colonial era All Saints Church was built in Hultsdorp.
The name of the suburb Hulftsdorp is a commemoration
of General Gerard Pieterszoon Hulft, the Dutch East
India Company’s Director of India and commander in
chief of the company’s forces in Ceylon (Sri Lanka) and
on the Coast of India. He was killed while besieging
Colombo. The hill on which he had his headquarters was
named ‘Hulft’s Dorp’ during the Dutch occupation.
Gangaramaya is one of the oldest Buddhist temples in
Colombo, started by the famous scholar monk Hikkaduwe
Sri Sumangala Nayaka Thera in the late 19th Century. This
Buddhist temple includes several imposing buildings and
is situated not far from the placid waters of Beira Lake
on a plot of land that was originally a small hermitage
on a piece of marshy land. It has the main features of
a Vihara (temple), the Cetiya (Pagada) the Bodhitree,
the Vihara Mandiraya, the Seema malaka (assembly
hall for monks) and the Relic Chamber. In addition, a
museum, a library, a residential hall, a three storeyed
Pirivena, educational halls and an alms hall are also on
the premises
Gampaha District happens to be one of the key places in
the country to have rich fertile soil that enable to grow
any fruit or a vegetable including paddy