The Kingsbury, trading as The Kingsbury PLC, formerly the Ceylon Continental Hotel Colombo and the Ceylon
Inter-Continental Hotel, is a nine-story hotel located at 48, Janadhipathi Mawatha in the city centre of
Colombo
Colombo ( ; si, කොළඹ, translit=Koḷam̆ba, ; ta, கொழும்பு, translit=Koḻumpu, ) is the executive and judicial capital and largest city of Sri Lanka by population. According to the Brookings Institution, Colombo me ...
,
Sri Lanka
Sri Lanka (, ; si, ශ්රී ලංකා, Śrī Laṅkā, translit-std=ISO (); ta, இலங்கை, Ilaṅkai, translit-std=ISO ()), formerly known as Ceylon and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an ...
. It was built by
U. N. Gunasekera, and is owned by Hotel Services (Ceylon) PLC, which is a subsidiary of
Hayleys PLC
Hayleys PLC, founded in 1878, is a multinational and diversified conglomerate company in Sri Lanka with business spanning over 16 sectors, catering to 70 markets worldwide. Hayleys accounts for approximately 4.2% of Sri Lanka's export income, a ...
. It was refurbished and reopened in January 2013.
History
Unlike the 1960s resort architecture, Ceylon InterContinental was an example of high rise engineering. A
bomb exploded in nearby
Central Bank of Sri Lanka
The Central Bank of Sri Lanka ( CBSL; si, ශ්රී ලංකා මහ බැංකුව, Sri Lanka Maha Bankuwa) is the monetary authority of Sri Lanka. It was established in 1950 under the Monetary Law Act No.58 of 1949 (MLA), it is a ...
building on 30 January 1996, killing at least 90 people. The hotel was damaged in the bombings.
It was one of the sites targeted during the
2019 Sri Lanka bombings that occurred on
Easter Sunday
Easter,Traditional names for the feast in English are "Easter Day", as in the ''Book of Common Prayer''; "Easter Sunday", used by James Ussher''The Whole Works of the Most Rev. James Ussher, Volume 4'') and Samuel Pepys''The Diary of Samuel ...
.
See also
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Amaya Resorts & Spas
Amaya Resorts & Spas, trading as Hayleys Leisure PLC (formerly Amaya Leisure PLC), is a Sri Lankan hospitality company. The company is listed on the Colombo Stock Exchange on March 11, 1996 and Sri Lankan conglomerate, Hayleys owns a controlling st ...
, a hotel brand owned by Hayleys Group
References
1973 establishments in Sri Lanka
Hotels in Colombo
Hotel buildings completed in 1973
2019 Sri Lanka Easter bombings
Companies listed on the Colombo Stock Exchange
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