Wolvendaal Church

Wolf Valley Church, founded in 1749, is the oldest surviving Dutch Catholic church in Colombo. Wolf Valley Church is one of the more beautiful and interesting churches in South Asia. This is a good place to visit if interested in Dutch colonial history. 1. Style The ancient Wolf Valley Church occupies a very important position in the Dutch ruins in Colombo and even the world. The church was funded by the East India Company and is a neoclassical church with a Greek cross-shaped structure and a wall thickness of 1.5 meters. All the wooden seats, pulpits, etc. in the church are all preserved from that time, and they are all old Dutch-style and valuable antiques. There are also carved floor tiles and pipe organs inside, which are all worth seeing. There are numerous monuments on the walls, as well as the tombstones of five Dutch governors and their wives, as well as dignitaries of the time. Every Sunday morning, the church will hold Mass on time. 2. The origin of the name The current location of this church is at a very busy big crossroads in the Beta District, but it was a wasteland outside the city walls of Colombo back then. Europeans mistakenly thought that the roaring jackal was a wolf, so it was called the place. Known as "Wolf Valley", although the origin of the name is quite interesting, this church is actually the most important Dutch building in Sri Lanka.