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Cathedral of the Good Shepherd

Cathedral of the Good Shepherd is a gazetted national monument of Singapore in Museum, Singapore, the highest level of built-heritage protection the state confers.

Cathedral of the Good Shepherd, a place of worship in Singapore
Cathedral of the Good Shepherd, photographed as a place of worship and confirmed by inspection to show this place rather than its surroundings. Chainwit. · CC-BY-4.0

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  • Quiet places — A place of worship, where the ordinary expectation is quiet and visitors are usually welcome outside services. It is in this corpus as gazetted as a national monument of Singapore, the highest level of built-heritage protection the state confers.

These are editorial judgements, not verified facts.

Sources & verification

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Master Plan 2019 Monument Site layer (Primary) — checked 2026-09-07
Point published against this record by Urban Redevelopment Authority.
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Master Plan 2019 Monument Site layer (Primary) — checked 2026-09-07
name
Master Plan 2019 Monument Site layer (Primary) — checked 2026-09-07
The register's own title for this record is "Cathedral of the Good Shepherd"; the displayed name is that title cleaned of markup and case, not a rename.
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Master Plan 2019 Monument Site layer (Primary) — checked 2026-09-07
The identifier Urban Redevelopment Authority gives this record. Read from the response.
category
Master Plan 2019 Monument Site layer (Primary) — checked 2026-09-07
Assigned from the register's own classification of this record as "sg_monuments".
neighborhoodId
Master Plan 2019 Monument Site layer (Primary) — checked 2026-09-07
Assigned by point-in-polygon against the Urban Redevelopment Authority's published Master Plan boundary.

Not verified: opening hours, admission prices and access rules. These change frequently and we have not checked them, so this page does not state them. Check the official website before travelling.

Created from record 8/12 of Master Plan 2019 Monument Site layer.

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