By the 1880s. the Indian Catholic community in Singapore from Ceyian (Sri Lanka) and French Pondicherry in South India had grown significantly in numbers. But they had no church of their own. So in 1883, Father Joachim Alexandre Meneuvrier who was in charge of the congregation, had helped to raise funds build a church at opir Road. Completed in 1888, the Church of Our Lady of Lourdes was built as Singapore's first Indian Catholic parish, serving Indian Catholics from all islands. The Indian Catholic community to a large extent kept to themselves from the main congregation of St. Peter and Paul’s church on Queen Street. It continued to serve mainly Indian Catholics in 1974.
This church commemorates the apparitions of the Virgin Mary at Lourdes France, and designed in the neo-Gothic style. Built by Swan&Lermit, the building adopted the design of Lourdes and the church was named after it. Inside the Church stand a grotto of Our Lady of Lourdes and two brass tablets which commemorate the first two parish priets. The trimmings, pointed arches, spines, fying buttresses and 16 slender pillars were all imported from France, and this church is one of the first religious buildings in Singapore to be built using framework, In 1958, French stained glass windows depictind the “15 Mysteries of the Most Holy Rosary” were added. The church was gazette as a national monument in 2005.