Kollupitaya, Colombo
Present-day Kollupitiya is a significantly urbanised neighbourhood in Colombo, south of the fort-area. Historically, it was a village that was specifically known for its arrack distilleries and some of the first cinnamon plantations created in Sri Lanka in the late eighteenth century.
This village is the birthplace of Anthony Gomez, a young man from the washer’s caste community. Anthony wanted to become a lecturer in the Dutch church, read what happened here: