Gangaramaya Seema Malaka

Situated in the Beira Lake nearby Galle Face Green in Colombo, Seema Malaka is a Buddhist temple mainly used for meditation by monks. The place is known for its calm ambiance and serene setting. It also houses a temple museum with a collection of vintage cars presented by patrons over the years.

The temple premises consists of three overwater platform halls connected to each other and the mainland by pontoon boardwalks. Numerous seated Buddha statues surround the halls. Seema Malaka temple is made from authentic wooden spindles and is bordered by handrails, with its facade resembling Kandyan Era designs. The main meditation hall has multiple Buddha statues, including one on a wooden altar in the center. There is a Buddha footprint at the temple entrance and a Guanyin statue in front of the main shrine. The four corners of the side platform have smaller shrines dedicated to the Hindu gods Shiva, Vishnu, Ganesha, and Kataragama Deviyo, a powerful guardian deity of Sri Lanka. 

Seema Malaka also houses a sacred Bodhi tree on one of the platform halls grown from a branch of the Sri Maha Bodhi Tree in Anuradhapura. Underneath the tree is a white marble Buddha statue in deep meditation.