Kachchiwatta Mosque is a mosque situated near Magalla bride in Makuluwa village in Galle. It is considered one of the oldest mosques in the country.
Kachchiwatta Mosque K achchiwatta Mosque (Sinhala: මාගාල්ල කච්චිවත්ත මුස්ලිම් දේවස්ථානය) is a mosque situated on the bank of Moragoda Ela near Magalla Bridge in Makuluwa village in Galle District, Sri Lanka. It is considered one of the oldest mosques in the country. A new mosque building has been built in front of this old religious building opposite the main road. Folklore The origin of the Kachchiwatta mosque is obscure. Although there is no concrete evidence, this mosque is assumed to have been established in the 7th century A.D., the probable period when Arabs first set foot in Sri Lanka. Local Islamists believe that after the death of Muhammad in 632 A.D., a leader named Abdul Rahman Walliullah with his group of missionaries headed to Galle but died before arriving on the island. It is said that his body was buried at the place where the modern Kachchiwatta mosque stands. The tomb named after this leader is still preserved in the modern mosque building. The folklore further says that Sadruddin, a son o…
