Manthiri Manai

Set back from the road, this once beautiful building is now completely derelict. Most sources date it back to the Jaffna Kingdom when it would have been used by visiting ministers. Others place the portico in the Dutch or Portuguese colonial era, or even as late as the 1890s.

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