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Katong, also known as Tanjong Katong, is a residential neighbourhood in the eastern portion of the Central Region of Singapore, within Marine Parade planning area. It used to be located by the sea, but land has been reclaimed all the way to East Coast Park to provide more land for housing and recreational purposes due to the shortage of land in the late 1960s after Singapore gained independence.
Siglap is a neighbourhood located in Bedok in the East Region of Singapore. The area also encompasses the Frankel and Opera Estates and their names have sometimes been used interchangeably to refer to the approximate same area. The planning subzone area of Siglap as defined by the Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) is confusingly and inaccurately referred to as the small strip of land between Victoria Junior College and Bedok South Avenue 1. It is a residential area where a majority live in landed homes such as freehold semi-detached houses and bungalows. Some of the land parcels near Siglap Centre have been redeveloped into serviced apartments and condominiums. The few Housing and Development Board flats in Siglap have been demolished in 2015 under the Selective En bloc Redevelopment Scheme. The East Coast Park is also located nearby, across the East Coast Parkway.
Dakota MRT station (CC8) is an underground Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) station on the Circle Line in Geylang planning area, Singapore.
Christians in Singapore constitute approximately 18% of the country's population. In 2010, about 38.5% of the country's Christians identified as Catholic and 61.5% as 'Other Christians'.
Victoria Street is a major two-way road in Singapore. It links Kallang Road in the northeast with Hill Street in the southwest. En route, Victoria Street passes through the planning areas of Kallang, Rochor, Downtown Core and Museum.
Tanjong Katong Secondary School, also known as TK, is an autonomous co-educational school located in Katong, Singapore. Before its Autonomous status, the school was frequently named by the Ministry of Education (MOE) as the 'Best Non-Independent and Non-Autonomous Secondary School' in Singapore. TK was presented the 'Ministry of Education's School Excellence Award in 2007, which recognises "excellence in both education processes and outcomes". The school celebrated its Diamond Jubilee - 60 years of establishment in 2016.
The Church of the Holy Family, also known as Holy Family Church and Katong Catholic Church, is a Roman Catholic church in the Archdiocese of Singapore. It is located at Chapel Road, Singapore, and has one of the largest parish populations in the archdiocese.
Joo Chiat Road is an arterial road and a residential conservation area in the eastern part of Singapore, and is located between Geylang Serai and Marine Parade Road.
CHIJ Katong Convent is an autonomous all-girls Catholic secondary school in Singapore.
The Sisters of the Infant Jesus, also known as the Congregation of the Holy Infant Jesus or the Dames of Saint-Maur, is a Roman Catholic religious institute, dedicated to education and the training of underprivileged schoolchildren. They were founded in Rouen, France, in 1666, as part of the work of Nicolas Barré, a Minim friar and Catholic priest (1621-1686), who had gathered some young women for the free instruction of the poor in 1662.
Mountbatten is a neighbourhood located in the planning area of Marine Parade, Singapore.
The English School is a boarding school founded in 1993 in the Baiyun District of Guangzhou in South Central China. It has 5300 students and 730 teaching members of staff across 60 elementary school classes and 76 middle school classes.
Mountbatten is a single-member constituency in the central-southeastern part of Singapore. It was formerly a ward of Marine Parade GRC from 1997 till 2011. It was carved out to be a SMC again in the 2011 election.
Katong Single Member Constituency was a constituency in Singapore. It used to exist from 1968 to 1984 and it was replaced by Marine Parade GRC. It carved out from Mountbatten.
Katong Park MRT station (TE24) is a future underground Mass Rapid Transit station on the Thomson-East Coast Line situated at the boundary of the planning areas of Kallang and Marine Parade, Singapore.
Tanjong Katong MRT station (TE25) is a future underground Mass Rapid Transit station on the Thomson-East Coast Line in Marine Parade, Singapore.
Assoc Prof Fatimah binte Abdul Lateef is a Singaporean politician. A member of the country's governing People's Action Party (PAP), she currently serves as a member of parliament (MP) for Marine Parade Group Representation Constituency (GRC) for the ward of Geylang Serai. She has been an MP since 2006.
Katong Laksa is a variant of laksa lemak inspired by the Straits Chinese who live in the precinct of Katong in Singapore. It has a spicy soup stock the colour of a flaming sunset, flavoured with coconut milk and dried shrimp, and topped with ingredients like cockles, prawns and fishcake. The noodles are normally cut up into smaller pieces so that the entire dish can be eaten with a spoon alone, without chopsticks or a fork.
Mountbatten Road is a major two-way road in Singapore that connects Kallang in the west to Marine Parade in the east. Major junctions along Mountbatten Road include that with Nicoll Highway, Old Airport Road, Stadium Boulevard, Fort Road and Tanjong Katong Road. The road continues eastwards as East Coast Road.
