Batasan Road (formerly and still known as IBP Road) is a six-to-ten-lane circumferential highway in the barangays of Batasan Hills, Bagong Silangan, Payatas, and Commonwealth, all in Quezon City, Philippines. The road serves as a route towards the Batasang Pambansa Complex, where the House of Representatives of the Philippines is located.
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The Batasang Pambansa Complex, or simply the Batasan, is the seat of the House of Representatives of the Philippines. It is located along the Batasan Road in Batasan Hills, Quezon City.
The complex was initially the home of the Batasang Pambansa, the former legislature of the Philippines which was established as an interim assembly in 1978 and finally as an official body in 1984. Under the 1973 Constitution, it replaced the bicameral Congress of the Philippines established under the 1935 Constitution.
When the bicameral Congress was restored in 1987, the complex was set aside as the home of the House of Representatives. The main building of the complex is still often referred to as the Batasang Pambansa.
The Senate, the upper house of Congress, does not meet in the Batasan, but in the GSIS Building across Metro Manila in Pasay.
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The 2007 Batasang Pambansa bombing occurred on the night of November 13, 2007, at the Batasang Pambansa Complex in Quezon City, Philippines—the seat of the country's House of Representatives. As Representatives Wahab Akbar, Luzviminda Ilagan, and Pryde Henry Teves were exiting the south wing of the building after a session, explosives in a nearby parked motorcycle were detonated. Akbar and a staffer of Ilagan were killed in the blast. Ilagan and Teves were injured, while four injured staffers later succumbed to their injuries.
In a follow-up police operation, three suspects were killed while another three, including Ikram Indama, were arrested. The suspects were allegedly members of Abu Sayyaf, a jihadist separatist group based in Basilan and Sulu. Akbar was apparently the target of the attack, and Akbar's political rivals, Gerry Salapuddin and Mujiv Hataman, were named as masterminds but were later cleared by the courts. In 2017, Ikram Indama was convicted of multiple murders for the attack and was sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole, while the two other suspects were acquitted. Three other suspects remain at large.
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The Iglesia Ni Cristo Locale of Capitol is a chapel of the Philippine-based church, the Iglesia ni Cristo. Located along Commonwealth Avenue in Quezon City, it was completed on July 19, 2014, and is one of the largest chapels ever built by the church, with the capacity of 3000. Also in the compound, where the District Office of the Ecclesiastical District of Quezon City located.
Built on the 7,500 square lot acquired by the church from National Housing Authority, the chapel was erected 43 years after the establishment of locale congregation of Capitol in 1971, which has also having a former chapel nearby which seats 200 worshippers at a time. It was designed to hold around 3,000 worshippers, accommodating some 1,300 in the main hall plus 200 in choir loft and 1,200 in its three-level balcony which designed for accommodating worshippers. The compound features, a two-story multi-level parking building which is the first in the INC church architecture.
On July 19, 2014, a week before the centennial celebrations of the church, the edifice was dedicated by Brother Eduardo V. Manalo which was coincided with the church's mid-year thanksgiving.
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Commonwealth Elementary School, located in Quezon City, Philippines, is a grade school with the largest student enrolment in the city with approximately 13,000 students in 2007. The school is one of the biggest elementary schools in the country, and is one of the world's most populous grade schools.
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Manggahan station is an under-construction at-grade Metro Rail Transit station served by the MRT Line 7 located in Quezon City. The station is the seventh station for trains headed to San Jose Del Monte and the eighth station for trains headed to North EDSA.
This is the only at-grade level station in the entire MRT-7 line.
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