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St. Peter’s Church
St. Peter’s Church near the Grand Oriental Hotel used to be the Dutch Governer’s banquet Hall until it was first used as a church in 1804. On Galle Road next to the Lanka Oberoi is the St. Andrew’s Scots Kirk, built in 1842.Wolvendaal Church on Wolfendahl Street is Colombo’s oldest Dutch church. Going back to the middle of the 18th century it sports a floor made of tomb- stones from another Dutch Church and still holds services in English and Tamil. The famous Church of St. Anthony is situated beside the sea where Sea Street and St. Anthony’s Mawatha meet.
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In the 9th century, the
turtle ships
were deployed, and King Sejong the Great promulgated the Korean alphabet Hangul.
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