Badulla St. Mark's Church St. Mark's Church (Sinhala: බදුල්ල ශාන්ත මාර්ක් දේවස්ථානය) is an Anglican church situated in Badulla town, Sri Lanka. It was erected by locals in 1857 in the memory of the colonial British officer Major Thomas William Rogers [(1804–1845) Lewis, 1913]. History Before 1857 There was not a church building in Badulla before 1857 and the church services were conducted in the local courthouse by the priests who came from Nuwara Eliya. In 1846, a Bishop named James Chapman visited Badulla while on a tour in Nuwara Eliya. He conducted a service in the Badulla courthouse on 24 February, attended by district officials and coffee planters. On the next day, he organized a public meeting for the locals from the neighbourhood and Europeans living in Uva and made preliminary arrangements to build a new church in Badulla. The church was finally erected at the present site in memory of Thomas William Rogers by 1857 with the contribution of the people of all religions and races in Badulla. It was cons…
