Gurunagar (Tamil: குருநகர், romanized: Kurunakar) is a coastal village in Jaffna city in northern Sri Lanka.

[5] Gurunagar, also spelled as Kurunagar derives its words from Kuru and Nagar (Urban centre in Tamil).

[12] It is surmised that it was here the Moroccan explorer Ibn Battuta, saw fleet of ships that belonged to the Aryacakravarti kings.

[15] In 1560, the Portuguese forces with 77 ships arrived in Gurunagar and defeated the Tamil army governing there before proceeding further to Nallur.

[17] The chapel was constructed as the place where the Jaffna king Cankili I killed his own son for converting to Catholicism.