Novena, as seen across the Kallang River from Toa Payoh. (11 July 2011)
Novena (Simplified Chinese: 诺维娜, Traditional Chinese: 諾維娜, Pinyin: Nuòwéinà; Tamil: நொவீணா) is a district (or in Singapore government nomenclature, "planning area") in Singapore. Covering 8.98 square kilometers, it is located in the Central Region the city state.
The planning area of Novena is composed of 5 neighbourhoods, called subzones. They are Balestier, Dunearn, Malcolm, Moulmein and Mount Pleasant. Novena traces its name to the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer, a Catholic religious congregation. The order settled in this part of Singapore and established Our Mother of Perpetual Help. Novena was named after the Novena prayer devotions of this order, which is at the Church of Saint Alphonsus Liguori, also called Novena Church.
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