DRAGON DAWWAKNOWLEDGE WITH HUMILITY

OUR COMMUNITY, BETTER UNDERSTOOD

Knowledge that helps
us care for one another.

A growing collection of public records, population insights and practical ideas for our community in Anuradhapura and beyond.

Sources checked 4 October 2026 · Population reference year: 2024

Muslims in Anuradhapura District83,9792024 census · religion: Islam
Muslims across Sri Lanka2,337,3792024 census · 10.7% of residents
Entries in the district mosque list108Published government directory

BEGINNING WITH OUR ROOTS

Our community mosque.

An official entry gives us a starting point. A fuller story will grow through records and the community’s own contributions.

FOUND IN THE OFFICIAL LIST

Jamia Kadheeja
Jummah Mosque

Registration
R/2141/A 112
Directory entry
97
Listed address
516/23, Udhaya Mawatha,
2nd Building, Anuradhapura
Type printed in source
JM
View entry 97 · PDF page 2 ↗

97 is a serial number, not a ranking. The published list is evidence of the listed registration; it is not a freshly issued certificate or proof of every current approval.

What the public record tells us

The name, registration, address, city and type are verified against the Department of Muslim Religious and Cultural Affairs list. Owner-provided context, not established by the directory: the founder identifies this as his community mosque.

Dragon Dawwa is a community initiative. This page does not claim endorsement by the mosque, the Department or the Wakfs Board.

A CLEARER PICTURE

Understand an area.
Plan with care.

Explore official 2024 population figures by district, DS division and GN division across Sri Lanka.

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Census boundaries are administrative areas, not mosque territories. These figures do not identify mosque members, worshippers or individual residents. A city name in a mosque address does not establish its GN or DS division.

Population by religion, Census 2024
AreaAll residentsMuslims (Islam)ShareArea / code

GN disclosure rule: DCS combines religion counts below 10 into “Other”. A dash here means the Islam count is not separately reported; it must not be read as zero. GN Islam values should not be added to reconstruct district or DS totals.

Counts are persons, not households. “Islam” is a religion category and must not be substituted with the “Sri Lanka Moor” ethnicity category. These are 2024 observations, not live 2026 estimates. GN names retain the English spelling in the source.

PLACES THAT CONNECT US

Anuradhapura mosque directory.

All 108 entries in the Department’s published district list, searchable by name, address, locality or registration.

Names, registration strings and locality spellings follow the source. Blank city fields remain unassigned. These are published entries, not a fresh audit of operating mosques, attendance, approval status or service boundaries.

Browse the Department’s mosque lists for all 25 districts ↗

GOOD FOUNDATIONS

Official records.
Responsible stewardship.

A practical starting point for the committee: government legislation, forms and published procedures.

The next records to request

Ask the Department about a current registration extract for R/2141/A 112, the approved trustee appointment record and the procedure for inspecting institutional records. Ask the committee for its approved constitution, activity information and any documented jamaat boundary. Request publishable or redacted copies.

These links describe official resources; they do not establish this mosque’s compliance or replace current instructions from the Department or Wakfs Board.

DEPARTMENT CONTACTdirector@muslimaffairs.gov.lk+94 11 266 9997Official contact page ↗

LEARNING THAT BECOMES SERVICE

Ideas for our next chapter.

Proposals to discuss with the community. No local programme, speaker, school registration or event date has been verified.

AN INVITATION, OPENLY GIVEN

Reach widely.
Let people choose to join.

A practical path to welcoming families, young people, women, elders and newcomers—online and in person.

    Measure welcome, not a list of residents.

    Use public area totals to plan capacity. Measure voluntary subscriptions, attendance and language needs separately, without treating them as a census of Muslims or mosque membership. There is no verified public dataset here that assigns every Muslim resident to a mosque. No individual religious profiles or contact lists are collected by this page.

    FOLLOW THE EVIDENCE

    Sources, scope & open questions.

    A useful research page makes its limits visible and gives readers a way back to the original record.