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Evening on 2nd Cross Street
Tag: 2nd Cross Street
Sometimes Life Gives You Oranges
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Evening in Pettah
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Vada Time of the Day
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The Electric Man #2
Teatime on 2nd Cross Street
Today’s News, on the City’s Oldest Street
Newspaper kiosk on the corner of Bankshall and 2nd Cross streets, in the Old Colombo area of Pettah. Bankshall Street is the city’s original main thoroughfare and, therefore, its oldest street, the central axis of the Portuguese coastal town of Kolon Tota, established in the early 16th century, the street name derived from the Javanese word for warehouses — bangasalas. Sri Lanka, April 2016.
Interior of the Red Mosque, Colombo, Sri lanka #3
Designed by Saibo Lebbe in the Indo-Saracenic style, and built in 1908, the Jami Ul-Alfar Masjid on 2nd Cross Street, in the old Colombo area of Pettah, has remained an enduring landmark of the city. April 2016.
2nd Cross Street, Pettah
A Borah businessman chats with a Tamil street vendor, the latter washing his handcart for a day of selling streetfood in the Pettah, one of the oldest parts of Sri Lanka’s commercial capital, Colombo. The name comes from a shortened and Anglicised version of Pita Kotuwa, or “outer fort”. It is largely a Tamil-speaking neighbourhood in a Sinhalese-majority country, Tamil being common to both the Muslim Moors and the Tamils who live and run many of the businesses in the Pettah. The striking striped building is the Jami Ul-Alfar Masjid, more commonly known as the Red Mosque. Built in 1908, for much of the first part of that century it was an identifying landmark for ships approaching the Colombo Harbour, until more recent high-rise buildings obscured it. April, 2016.
“Surely the Morning Recitation is Witnessed”*
A lone Muslim prays on a Friday morning in the Jami Ul-Alfar Masjid on 2nd Cross Street, in the old Colombo area of Pettah. Designed by Saibo Lebbe in the Indo-Saracenic style, and built in 1908, the Red Mosque, as it is more commonly known, has been an enduring landmark of the city. Each of the four main pillars is hewn from a complete teak tree brought to Colombo from Puttalam. Sri Lanka, April 2016.
*From the Quran’s Chapter 17, the Sūrat Al-Isrā (The Night Journey), Verse 78
Son of the Morning Light 