Memorials : 1
Location : Jaffna, Jaffna District, Sri Lanka
Description : "This church is, in point of date, the oldest of the existing ecclesiastical edifices of the Dutch in Ceylon. It was erected in 1706...but an older building probably occupied this site as the church contains tombstones of, inter alia 1666, 1672, 1673, and 1693 let into the floor and no doubt in situ. Source: J. Penry Lewis, C.M.G.: List of Inscriptions on Tombstones and Monuments in Ceylon of Historical or Local Interest with an Obituary of Persons Uncommemorated, Colombo: H. C. Cottle, Government Printer, 1913, p. 215.

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