The Tower of Power is a 777 ft (236.8 m), 120,000 watt radio tower owned by the GMA Network located in Tandang Sora, Barangay Culiat, Quezon City. It serves as a transmitter facility for GMA's flagship stations, including DZBB-TV 7 (digital UHF 15), GTV's DWDB-TV 27, and Barangay FM's DWLS 97.1 MHz.
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Tandang Sora Avenue is a major east-west thoroughfare bisecting Quezon City in Metro Manila, Philippines. It is a two-to-six-lane highway and municipal road that runs for 9.6 kilometers from its eastern terminus at Magsaysay Avenue in Pansol and U.P. Campus in Diliman to its western terminus at Quirino Highway in Baesa and Talipapa in Novaliches, crossing Barangays Culiat, New Era, Pasong Tamo, Tandang Sora, and Sangandaan.
The avenue's segment east of Commonwealth Avenue is a national secondary road with the route designation N129; it also forms part of the Circumferential Road 5 network of the Metro Manila arterial road system. Its western segment in Tandang Sora and Culiat, west of Commonwealth Avenue, is a narrow municipal road classified as a national tertiary road.
Tandang Sora Avenue was named after its location in the barangay of Tandang Sora. The barrio, in turn, was renamed from Talipapa in 1952 in honor of Filipina patriot Melchora Aquino.
A flyover linking Tandang Sora Avenue with Luzon Avenue over Commonwealth Avenue in Culiat was built in 2009 as part of the C-5 Road network project. In February 2019, the Department of Public Works and Highways announced the demolition of a flyover of Commonwealth Avenue at the Tandang Sora junction in New Era to make way for the construction of the Tandang Sora station of the Manila Metro Rail Transit System Line 7. A Metro Manila Subway station is also planned at the avenue's junction with Mindanao Avenue in Tandang Sora.
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The Iglesia ni Cristo Museum is an ecclesiastical museum located in Quezon City and is owned and operated by the Iglesia ni Cristo. Located in a building inaugurated in 2019, it is formerly located in the basement of the INC Central Temple. It features the history of the denomination and memorabilia of its founders.
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The EVM Convention Center is a convention center in Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines. It is associated with the Iglesia ni Cristo.
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San Agustin Center of Studies is a seminary located in Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines. It was founded in 1984.
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New Era University is a private educational institution in the Philippines, run by the Iglesia ni Cristo. Although it is associated with the INC, it is a non-sectarian university. Its main campus is at New Era, Quezon City, within the Central Office Complex of the INC, since 1986. Aside from its flagship Quezon City campus, it has four other campuses around the Philippines, including one in San Fernando City, in Lipa City, in General Santos, and in Baras.
Founded on June 17, 1975, it was known as the New Era Educational Institute, and was located along Echague Street, Quiapo, Manila. It initially offered only secondary education but later expanded in 1977 to serve technical and vocational courses under its Center for Livelihood and Skills Training. It also offers graduate programs.
In 1981, it was renamed New Era College after the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports granted collegiate status, and later in June 1995, to its present name, New Era University, when the Commission on Higher Education granted university status.
It is run by the INC for the educational needs of INC members, although it accepts enrollments from non-INC members as well. Formerly, under the university umbrella, it ran the College of Evangelical Ministry School for Ministers), where the Church teaches its male members to become ministers.
Other colleges include College of Engineering and Technology, College of Nursing, College of Business Administration, College of Arts and Sciences, College of Education, College of Music, College of Law, College of Computer Studies, College of Accountancy, School of Graduate Studies, and the then new College of Communication, College of Medicine, and Center for Medical and Health Allied Sciences. It offers new courses in the Philippines, including BS Real Estate Management and BS Criminology.
NEU is the legal owner of the Philippine Arena, which is the largest indoor arena in the world with a seating capacity of over 50,000.
It annually hosts its graduation ceremonies at the Philippine Arena in Ciudad de Victoria, which is being developed because there is a proposal to move the main campus of NEU to this location.