This coexistence has been marred by isolated incidents and attacks on religious places by Islamic extremist groups and Buddhist extremist group . Several Hindu temples were attacked in the riots of 1983 in Colombo and South of Sri Lanka . During the Sri Lankan Civil War , the Sri Lankan air force air raided Hindu and Christian shrines in the belief that LTTE rebels had taken shelter in there , with the Navaly church bombing being one notable event . Two of the holiest sites for Buddhists in Sri Lanka , the Sri Maha Bodhi Tree and the Temple of the Tooth , were attacked and bombed by the secularist LTTE . The LTTE also attacked several Muslim mosques in North-Eastern parts of the country
Navaly church bombing
Navaly church bombing
Freedom of religion in Sri Lanka