Novena MRT station is an underground Mass Rapid Transit (MRT) station on the North–South Line . Located along Thomson Road in Novena , Singapore , the station is located near landmarks such as Tan Tock Seng Hospital , Mount Elizabeth Novena Hospital and United Square. Planned as part of Phase One of the MRT system, under the working name Thomson, the station's name was changed to Novena in November 1982, after the Novena Church. Construction of the station commenced in January 1984, and the station opened in December 1987.
18-534: North West CDC Holland-Bukit Timah GRC Jalan Besar GRC Tanjong Pagar GRC Novena ( locally / n oʊ ˈ v iː n ɑː / ) is a planning area located within the Central Region of Singapore. Novena is bounded by Toa Payoh to the north, Bukit Timah to the west, Tanglin to the south and Kallang to the east. While Novena is not classified as a "new town" by the Housing and Development Board (HDB),
36-585: A total of three primary schools, three secondary schools, three private schools and two schools offering tertiary education as of 2024. The list is as follows: Novena is accessible by MRT , with buses serving the city, nearest neighbouring estates and is close proximity to the expressway. The area has no bus interchange, the nearest being in Toa Payoh . However, Saint Michael's Bus Terminal can be found along Balestier. Planning Areas of Singapore Planning areas , also known as DGP areas or DGP zones , are
54-662: Is a sports and lifestyle mall with a new building extension. It lies directly above Novena MRT station . It was opened in December 2000, and owned by Novena Square Investments. There are 160 stores and spans 3 floors. Square 2 is located at the Novena MRT station . It was opened on 10 December 2007, and it is developed and owned by Far East Organization . It has over 180 specialty stores, selling food and beverage, fashion and accessories, education and enrichment, as well as beauty & wellness services, spanning five floors. Novena has
72-668: Is centred around Tan Tock Seng Hospital , and supported by step-down facilities such as the Integrated Care Hub, Ren Ci Hospital and Dover Park Hospice as well tertiary national medical centres including the National Centre for Infectious Diseases , National Neuroscience Institute and National Skin Centre . The Clinical Sciences Building of the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine and various leisure and public spaces complete
90-758: The Novena Church (The Church of St. Alphonsus), the former Jewish cemetery that was cleared for the station, Middleton Hospital (formerly called the Government Infectious Disease Hospital, and the Tan Tock Seng Hospital , as well as historical figures such as American Consul Joseph Balestier and merchants Hoo Ah Kay , Seah Liang Seah, and Tan Tock Seng . The station is one of the MRT stations in Singapore rumoured to be haunted, possibly because
108-569: The Novena MRT station . Novena Medical Centre is located at levels 8 to 11 of the Square 2 shopping centre. Adjacent to Novena Square's Office Tower is a sports-themed mall called Novena Velocity. Opposite Novena Square, and across the Junction of Newton Road, Moulmein Road and Thomson Road, is United Square Shopping Mall , a children-oriented mall, with shops catering to infants, kids and parents. Shops located in
126-672: The 1991 Concept Plan. Since implementing these boundaries, other government ministries and departments have increasingly adopted them for administrative purposes. For example, the Statistics Department of Singapore published its 2000 census data based on planning area boundaries for the first time, compared to using census divisions based on electoral boundaries for previous exercises. The Singapore Police Force 's (SPF) neighbourhood police centres have jurisdiction boundaries based on planning area boundaries when they were officially gazetted in 1999, as opposed to electoral divisions under
144-672: The Church of Saint Alphonsus Liguori) located in the area. Balestier Road was named after Joseph Balestier , an American diplomat who served in Singapore in the 1800s. Land in Novena is very expensive because of its close proximity to the Central Area . There are few HDB flats in Novena; most houses in the area are condominiums or private housing. Novena is home to the largest concentration of hospitals and medical centres in Singapore. An integrated academic medical complex termed HealthCity Novena ,
162-469: The North–South Line, and is located between Toa Payoh and Newton stations, with the station code NS20. Novena station's design is similar to that of Toa Payoh station, with a gross area of 8,000 square metres (86,000 sq ft) and two levels, reaching a depth of 15 metres (49 ft). The upper level acts as the station's concourse, and is used for ticketing control, while the lower-level houses
180-568: The Novena area include Starbucks (one in United Square and another in Novena Square), Cold Storage , Decathlon and the newly opened Don Don Donki at Square 2 , a Japanese Discount Store. Banks located in the Novena area include POSB and UOB . Novena has seen major improvements in terms of new shops opening in the area since Square 2 and Velocity commenced business in recent years. Velocity@Novena Square , formerly known as Novena Square,
198-480: The complex. A number of private healthcare providers are situated next to Tan Tock Seng Hospital. The private cluster is anchored by Mount Elizabeth Novena Hospital , with standalone outpatient clinics leveraging on network effects setting up in Novena Medical Centre, Novena Specialist Centre and Royal Square Novena. Central to this area is Novena Square , a mixed used development situated directly above
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#1732883826564216-698: The estate of Whampoa within the subzone of Balestier constitutes part of the Kallang /Whampoa New Town. The vicinity is named after the Novena prayer devotions to Our Mother of Perpetual Help , originally established by the Redemptorist Order that settled and propagated within the area. In later years, the Tan Tock Seng Hospital was set in 1844, one of the oldest and busiest hospitals in Singapore. Novena and its associated roads, buildings and Mass Rapid Transit station are named after Novena Church (canonically
234-530: The extension of the MRT system to Outram Park . In April 2002, a lift connecting the concourse with the street level above was opened. Originally, the station's distinctive features are bright green wall tiles. The station takes its name from the Novena Church , which it is close to. The station is located between Thomson Road and Sinaran Drive, underneath Novena Square. It is in proximity to Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Mount Elizabeth Novena Hospital, Revenue House, United Square and Square 2. The station serves
252-479: The main urban planning and census divisions of Singapore delineated by the Urban Redevelopment Authority . There are 55 of these areas, organised into five regions . A Development Guide Plan is then drawn up for each planning area, providing detailed planning guidelines for every plot of land throughout the country. The planning areas were first introduced in the early 1990s after the release of
270-458: The previous neighbourhood Police Post system. Planning areas are further subdivided into 332 subzones for statistical purposes. * = Place names attested to be of Malay origin and referred to similarly in the Malay language. Novena MRT station The station was planned as part of Phase One of the MRT system's development, and was initially named Thomson. In November 1982, the station's name
288-424: The station's platforms. The station also contains walls clad in white tiles, and pillars that are emerald green. When the station first opened, it included a sunken plaza , along with a landscaped pedestrian mall. The station's exits also were fitted with a steel honeycomb-like framework. As a part of the heritage-themed comic connect by SMRT, the station features a mural by local artist David Liew. It depicts
306-533: Was built from the bottom up. In 1984, a Jewish cemetery along Thomson Road was cleared to make way for the station, with the graves reinterred in Choa Chu Kang, and to prevent soil subsidence, the tunnels connecting Novena and Newton were built in compressed air. In June 1985, a worker was killed at the station site after receiving head injuries from being struck by moving components of a tunnel boring machine . Novena station opened on 12 December 1987, as part of
324-519: Was changed to Novena, which the Provisional MRT Authority believed more accurately reflected the station's location. In October 1983, Contract 104 for the construction of the Novena and Toa Payoh stations, and the tunnels between Toa Payoh and Newton stations, was awarded to two Japanese contractors, Tobishima and Takenaka. Construction of the station began in January 1984, and the station
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