Island Hermitage

Island Hermitage - Credit: Wikimedia Commons

Island Hermitage on (Polgasduwa) Dodanduwa Island, Galle District, Sri Lanka is a famous Buddhist forest monastery founded by Ven Nyanatiloka Mahathera in 1911. It is a secluded place for Buddhist monks to study and meditate in the Buddhist tradition, and it contains an English and German library. Read more on Wikipedia

type: religious building
date from: 1911

Source: en.wikipedia.org