Sri Kadiravelayutha Swami Kovil is one of the oldest Hindu shrines in the area and lies amidst a misty and panoramic view of the Haputale hills by the side of the Beragala — Haputale main road in Haputale in the Badulla district. Sri Kadiravelayutha Swami Kovil is also named as the main Hindu Temple in Haputale and sometimes goes as the Sri Kadiresan Kovil or Murugan Kovil in Haputale.

It has been said that the Sri Kadiravelayutha Swami Kovil was founded in the year 1886. In 1886, when the Hindu temple of Haputale was founded in Sri Lanka in the then Ceylon, the country was under British Colonial rule and this was also during the construction period of the Colombo — Badulla main railway track. However, according to Mr. Ramasamy Karthigesan Perunkondar (Suresh), the present hereditary trustee of the Hindu temple at Haputale said, “According to the legal documents which | have on me, the Hindu temple in Haputale, which is under my hereditary trustee ownership, was established in 1905 by Nallakutti Ramasamy Peunkondar who arrived into Ceylon from South India. He lived in a village named Perunkondan Viduthi (Perunkondan Village). Later he had joined Indian Railways as a Periya Kangani (Supervisor) and came to Ceylon in 1880”.

Text and image Source : The Treasure Island Sri Lanka Magazine- March 2016 Vol - 02 Issue 09