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Audience hall seen partially here
from northern facade of the temple
Audience hall or the Magul maduwa is where the Kandyan kings
held their royal court. It was completed during the reign of
Sri Vikrama Rajasinha. The carvings of the wooden pillars
which support the wooden roof are an example of wood carving of the Kandyan period. Sri Rajadhi
Rajasinha built this in the year of 1783. The hall was renovated for
the reception of arrival in Kandy of Prince Albert Edward,
Prince of Wales in 1872. Originally the hall of the size of 58*35.6 feet and
after the renovation length was extended by additional 31.6 feet. Other nearby building to the halls
believed to be demolished during the British rule. The audience hall was the venue
where the Kandyan Convention
was drawn up, it was where the convention was read out to the people and where
the conference, about the convention was held on 2 March 1815. That space later used to erect the
Kandy Kachcheri and Kandy supreme court after that. Today it is used for state
ceremonies and conserved under department of archaeology.
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