Who rests here
Saints · died 1024 · Beruwala
A merchant-scholar and Sufi said to have led a party of seven from Hadramawt in Yemen that came ashore at Beruwala around 1024 CE. He was buried on the Ketchimalai headland, regarded as the point where Sri Lanka's Muslim (Moor) community first settled on the island.
Full biography of Shaykh Ashraff Waliullah →(the text above is quoted from the person's record)
How to get there
Located in: Beruwala
Coordinates: 6.47278, 79.97611
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Permanent ID: EA-Y-000595 · this address reaches the same record even if its name changes; use it when citing.