Sri Lanka Planetarium: built in 1965 at Colombo University, designed by A.N.S. Kulasinghe, first & only planetarium in Sri Lanka with a 550-seat dome.
Sri Lanka Planetarium S ri Lanka Planetarium (Sinhala: ශ්රී ලංකා ග්රහලෝකාගාරය), located in the University of Colombo premises in Stanley Wijesundara Mawatha in Kurunduwatta, is the first and only planetarium in Sri Lanka. History The planetarium was established in 1965 by the State Engineering Corporation as a special feature for the Ceylon Industrial Exhibition held in Colombo in the same year to introduce the latest technologies specially to show the capability of creating a night sky (Wanigasooriya, 2016). Designed by Engineer A. N. S. Kulasinghe (b.1919-d.2006), the planetarium building was declared open to the public on 1 February 1965. The building which follows the architectural elements extracted from Sir Frederick Gibberd's Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral (1960) and Costa and Niemeyer's Cathedral of Brasília (1960-1970) was funded and maintained by East Germany as a gift to Ceylon (present Sri Lanka) government (Pieris, 2012). Planetarium Structure Sri Lanka planetarium is considered one of t…
