Masjid Tentera Diraja

Masjid Tentera Dīrāja (Jawi: مسجد تنترا ديراجا; Tamil: তেতেরা দিরজা মসজিদ) is a mosque located in the Clementi Woods Park within Clementi, Singapore. It was built in 1961 by Muslims serving in the army of colonial Singapore, hence the name Tentera Diraja ("Army of the King" in Malay).

History Masjid Tentera Diraja was built in 1961 by Muslim soldiers who served in the colonial army. The mosque was officially inaugurated on 30 March 1962 by the then Prime Minister, Yusof Ishak, who led the grand inauguration ceremony at the mosque. A new committee for the mosque was formed upon its reopening as the old committee had been disbanded following British withdrawal from Singapore. After the completion of , the existence of a second mosque in Clementi was seen as redundant by the authorities, resulting in the mosque being planned either to be converted into a madrasah, or to be demolished. These plans did not come to fruition as the government chose to preserve the mosque instead, but place it on Temporary Occupation License (TOL) land, hence the mosque may be demolished and the land returned to the government once the license had expired. The licence for the mosque was renewed in 2014, along with those of and , allowing a longer lease period for all three mosques. The mosque also received a major renovation in 2006 which added a two-storey madrasah building annexed to the main mosque building.

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Transportation Masjid Tentera Diraja is located on a hill on the edge of the Clementi Woods Park.

Masjid Tentera Diraja

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