Located in Cinnamon Gardens, it was named after Rev.
[1] In the 1970s, it was renamed after the Sri Lankan poet Kumaratunga Munidasa.
[3][4][5] Located on Kumaratunga Munidasa Mawatha are India House, Colombo,[6] Saifee Villa, the Geoffrey Bawa-designed house belonging to Upali Wijewardene (since been demolished) and the Flower Drum Chinese Restaurant.
Since the late 1980s, this building and its grounds have housed the Joint Operations Command (JOC) of the Sri Lankan Armed Forces.
In 1991, the LTTE detonated a van filled with explosives in a suicide bombing targeting the JOC.