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Almost Christmas

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A teenage choir awaits their cue to take part in a Christmas carol service at the Anglican Cathedral of Christ the Living Saviour. Cinnamon Gardens, Colombo. December 2018.

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Christ Church, Mutwal

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Consecrated in 1854, the Gal Palliya (‘stone church’ in Sinhalese, for its distinctive dark granite) was the Anglican Church’s first cathedral in Ceylon, and was the seat of the Bishop of Colombo for 116 years until, in 1970, that seat moved to the newly built Cathedral of Christ the Living Saviour, in Cinnamon Gardens. The grounds of Christ Church, now slowly being squeezed by the ever-widening Aluthmawatha that divides it from the Colombo Port, once held the first humble classrooms of what would become St Thomas’ College, Mt Lavinia. Shot in April 2021.

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Church, Temple, and that Old Red Line

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Anglican and Roman Catholic nuns calling for Sri Lankan President Gotabhaya Rajapakse and his government to step down, protest against the backdrop of the Nelum Pokuna Mahinda Rajapakse Theatre, a stark reminder of the wasteful policies of a regime that has brought the country to economic ruin. Colombo, April 2022.

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Open Aisle

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Shermaine Willis and Anuradha Perera, shot on assignment at the Trinity College Chapel, for Ashraff Associates and The Radh, Kandy, in October 2018. Designed by the Rev LG Gaster, and inspired by the Embekke Devale, the chapel was, in 1935, pioneering for its use of Sinhalese architecture in a Christian worship site. The famous Anglican cathedrals of Christ the King, in Kurunegala, and Christ the Living Saviour, in Colombo, both of vernacular style, and completed in 1960 and 1970 respectively, may not have looked the way they do if not for the Trinity College Chapel.

Mother Church

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Consecrated in 1854, Christ Church, Mutwal, was the Anglican Church’s first cathedral in Ceylon, and was the seat of the Bishop of Colombo for 116 years until, in 1970, that seat moved to the newly built Cathedral of Christ the Living Saviour, in Cinnamon Gardens. The grounds of Christ Church, slowly being squeezed by the ever-widening Aluthmawatha that divides it from the Colombo Port, once held the first humble classrooms of what is now St Thomas’ College, Mt Lavinia. Shot in April 2021.

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Cathedral Interior, Colombo, Sri Lanka

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Choristers prepare for a carol service at the Cathedral of Christ the Living Saviour. Shot on assignment for Smart Media and Gateway College in December 2018.
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Trinity College Chapel, Kandy, Sri Lanka #4

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Shermain Willis and Anuradha Perera, shot on assignment for Ashraff Associates and The Radh, Kandy in October 2018.
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Teenage Choristers, Cathedral of Christ the Living Saviour, Colombo, Sri Lanka

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Young high school choristers take a break to check their selfies before a carol service at the Cathedral of Christ the Living Saviour, in Sri Lanka’s capital, Colombo. Christmas 2018.
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Trinity College Chapel, Kandy, Sri Lanka #6

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Sri Lanka, October 2018.
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