Ananda Sastralaya - Kotte, celebrates its 117th aniversary on the 1 st January 2007. In 1890,Ven.Embulgama Wimalathissa Thera along with element leaders in the Dayaka Saba the Rajamaha Viharaya Kotte ,headed by Thepanis Perera Appuhamy and a few others ,further enhanced the educational facilities of the school and renamed it KotteBauddha (Buddhist) mixed school and this was the beginning of Ananda Sastralaya.It was located in a plot of land transferred by the Raja Maha Viharaya. The first head master was C.Ranasingha,for the period 1890-1903.