Kandy Methodist Church
The Methodist Church in Kandy (Sinhala: මහනුවර මෙතොදිස්ත පල්ලිය) is situated on the wayside of Brownrigg Street (or Yatinuwara Veediya) in Kandy Town, Sri Lanka. History The history of the Methodist Church in Sri Lanka dates back to the early 19th century (Melton & Baumann, 2010). The Methodist Bishop Thomas Coke (1747-1814) who hoped to open Methodist missions in the East Indies, set sail for Sri Lanka (then Ceylon) on 30 December 1813 with six other missionaries including William Ault, Benjamin Clough, George Erskine, Thomas Hall Squance, William Martin Harvard, and James Lynch. However, during the voyage, Coke died and was buried at sea (Melton & Baumann, 2010). The six others, except for Harvard (he remained in Bombay, India due to family circumstances), arrived in Galle on 29 June 1814, six months after they started their journey and one year before the fall down of the Kingdom of Kandy . The Kingdom of Kandy was annexed to the British Empire under the terms of a treaty know…
