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St. Sebastian’s Church

church building in Negombo, Sri Lanka
Church church_building Q25055515
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Summary

St. Sebastian’s Church is a church building[1]. It ranks in the top 2% of church building entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (70 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Religion or worldview: Catholicism[3]
  • Located in the administrative territorial entity: Negombo[4]
  • Country: Sri Lanka[5]
  • Architectural style: Gothic architecture[6]
  • Commons category: St. Sebastian's Church, Wellaweediya[7]
  • Inception: 1946[8]
  • Diocese: Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Colombo[9]
  • Significant event: 2019 Sri Lanka bombings[10]
  • Christian liturgical rite: Roman Rite[11]

Why It Matters

St. Sebastian’s Church has Wikipedia articles in 5 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[12] It is known by 7 alternative names across languages and contexts.[13]

Related Entities

Sri Lanka

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . gcatholic.org. gcatholic.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . gcatholic.org. gcatholic.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [12] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [13] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 20h ago · Peter17-Bot bot · 2026-10-21 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['arz', 'commons', 'cs', 'en', 'es', 'fa', 'vi']
    Diocese → Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Colombo
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Diocese: Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Colombo"
  2. 12w ago · Gower · 2026-07-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Religion or worldview → Catholicism
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/43570|batch #43570]]: P140 for churches (Q1841 instead of Q9592)"
  3. 12w ago · Gower · 2026-07-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Inception → —
    Instance of → —
    Coordinate location → {'lat': 7.219, 'lon': 79.839}
    Located in the administrative territorial entity → Negombo
    + 10 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/43570|batch #43570]]: P140 for churches (Q1841 instead of Q9592)"
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