Obeyesekere Walawwa

Obeyesekere Walauwa, also known as Maligawa, (Sinhalese: Palace) is a large bungalow (as mansions are erroneously referred to locally) in Colombo, Sri Lanka.

A stately home in the tropical Neoclassical style, it was used as a town house by the Obeyesekere family.

At the time of its construction, it was situated on a marsh at the edge of Cinnamon Gardens, a suburb of Colombo.

It was built by the wealthy Obeyesekere family and headed by Sir James Peter Obeyesekere II, Kt, MA who was the First Mudaliyar, one of the highest posts available for a Ceylonese in the British Colonial Administration of Ceylon at the time.

However, in December 1941 with the outbreak of World War II in the far east, the house and the Royal College premises were taken over by the British Army.