St. Lawrence's Church, Wellawatte
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St. Lawrence's Church is the seat of the Wellawatte
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of
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. It is located at
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(near Pereira Lane),
Wellawatte Wellawatta is a neighbourhood of Colombo, Sri Lanka. It lies immediately south of Bambalapitiya and is classified as zone 6 within the Colombo Municipal region. The town begins at the old Dutch canal just before the Savoy Cinema and extends s ...
, Colombo 06. The church is dedicated to St. Lawrence, the patron saint of Sri Lanka, Colombo and parish of Wellawatte. On 6 January 1938 the
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, Jean-Marie Masson inaugurated the new Parish of Wellawatte. The original St Lawrence’s Church was built at Villa Pleasant (which was renamed St Lawrence Road) and Rev. Robert Fernando was appointed as its first priest. Fernando realised that the Church was too small for the congregation and purchased a parcel of land at 375 Galle Road,
Wellawatte Wellawatta is a neighbourhood of Colombo, Sri Lanka. It lies immediately south of Bambalapitiya and is classified as zone 6 within the Colombo Municipal region. The town begins at the old Dutch canal just before the Savoy Cinema and extends s ...
. On 17 January 1954 the Archbishop of Colombo,
Thomas Cooray Thomas Benjamin Cooray (Sinhala language: තෝමස් බෙන්ජමින් කුරේ), O.M.I. (28 December 1901 – 29 October 1988) was a Sri Lankan cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church who served as the Archbishop of Colombo ...
laid the foundation stone for the new church. Construction took fourteen years to complete, with the church being consecrated on 6 March 1968 by
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Cooray.


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St. Lawrence's Church – Mass schedule
{{DEFAULTSORT:Lawrence, St. Churches in Colombo Churches completed in 1968 19th-century Roman Catholic church buildings in Sri Lanka 1968 establishments in Ceylon