and discarded in the 1960s and no trace of it remains. The old wooden pews have also had their fleur-de-lis decorations removed. In early 2008, the church installed a second-hand 50 stops Allen 2 Manual Digital Computer Organ in the Choir Loft. The parish of the Church of Saints Peter and Paul grew marginally in the 1970s but began to decline since the 1980s when schools within its vicinity were relocated. With the completion of new churches in the various housing estates and the demarcation of parish boundaries, many parishioners have since left for their new parishes located nearer to their homes. The Church of Saints Peter and Paul was gazetted a national monument on 10 February 2003. From 4 September to 12 November 2006, the church was one of the exhibition venues for the Singapore Biennale, Singapore's inaugural international biennale of contemporary art. Currently, the church is under the care of the Discalced Carmelite Friars. All Post-Conciliar Masses are usually in English with a Mandarin service on Sunday mornings and a Cantonese service on Sunday afternoons. The officially-sanctioned Extraordinary Form or Traditional Latin Mass within the Archdiocese of Singapore is held within the church every Sunday evening at 6:00pm. Most recently, the church underwent a major renovation and restoration, which was completed in 2016. Apart from addressing necessary repairs to the fabric, the renovation also reinstated several features of the original church, such as ornate encaustic tiles, similar to the ones removed in the late 1960s. Besides repairing the aging roof structure and other technical improvements such as lighting and air conditioning, many of the unsympathetic changes introduced in the 1970s renovation were reversed: the modern sheet metal vertical window louvres were replaced with traditional wooden louvred windows, the badly-planned gallery at the west end was removed, and a high altar, similar to the one that was demolished, has been purchased and re-installed at the east end. Additional joinery screens were added to the east wall, and an altar rail was reintroduced. Following this renovation, the church became the recipient of the Urban Redevelopment Authority of Singapore's Architectural heritage award in 2016. See also Saint Peter Saint Paul of Tarsus Christianity in Singapore Roman Catholicism in Singapore Archdiocese of Singapore List of Roman Catholic churches in Singapore References Bibliography: Norman Edwards, Peter Keys (1988), Singapore – A Guide to Buildings, Streets, Places, Times Books International, Eugene Wijeysingha (2006), Going