Blumentritt LRT Station
Location	Sampaloc, Manila
Operational	May 12, 1985
Line	Yellow Line
Platforms	2

Blumentritt LRT Station is a station on the Manila LRT Yellow Line (LRT-1). Like all other LRT-1 stations, Blumentritt station is above-ground. The station serves Sampaloc in Manila. The station itself is located near Blumentritt Street, where the station was named after. The street itself is named after Ferdinand Blumentritt, a friend of José Rizal and a sympathizer of the Filipino cause. Sampaloc district is a lively, middle-class, residential area in Manila City. ... Manila (Filipino: Maynila) is the capital of the Philippines. ... May 12 is the 132nd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (133rd in leap years). ... This article is about the year. ... The Manila Light Rail Transit System, popularly known as the LRT, is the main metropolitan rail system serving the Metro Manila area in the Philippines. ... Sampaloc district is a lively, middle-class, residential area in Manila City. ... Manila (Filipino: Maynila) is the capital of the Philippines. ... Ferdinand Blumentritt (Prague, September 10, 1853 - September 20, Leitmeritz 1913) was a teacher and a secondary school principal in Leitmeritz (today LitomeÅ™ice, Czech Republic). ... Dr. José Protacio Mercado Rizal y Alonzo Realonda (June 19, 1861 – December 30, 1896), variously called the Pride of the Malay Race, The Great Malayan, The First Filipino, The Messiah of the Revolution, The Universal Hero and The Messiah of the Redemption. ...

Blumentritt station serves as the fifth station for LRT-1 trains headed for Baclaran and as the fourteenth station for trains headed to Monumento. It is the second-to last station on Taft Avenue before the line shifts to Rizal Avenue at Abad Santos station. Like its southern counterpart at Tayuman, the station is near the old San Lazaro Hippodrome, which now houses SM City San Lazaro. Baclaran LRT Station is a station on the Manila LRT Yellow Line (LRT-1). ... Monumento LRT Station is a station on the Manila LRT Yellow Line (LRT-1). ...

Transportation links

A Philippine National Railways station exists just a short walk from the station, also known as Blumentritt station. Jeepneys and taxis that ply Taft Avenue and nearby routes stop at Blumentritt station, where there is a nearby transportation terminal. Philippine National Railways (PNR), a state-owned railway company under the Department of Transportation and Communication of the Philippines, was created in its present form in 1984. ...

Rizal Day bombings

On Rizal Day (December 30), 2000, an LRT-1 car exploded as part of a series of explosions in a terrorist attack known as the Rizal Day bombings. The attack on the LRT killed some 22 people and injured hundreds. Eight members of both Jemaah Islamiyah and the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), which include Hambali, Asia's most wanted man, and the late Fathur Roman al-Ghozi, were charged with plotting and masterminding the attacks in 2003, some three years after the attacks. Three suspects are now on trial. Rizal Day is a national holiday in the Philippines, occuring on December 30. ... December 30 is the 364th day of the year (365th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 1 day remaining. ... This article is about the year 2000. ... The Rizal Day bombings were a series of bombings that occurred in various places in Metro Manila, Philippines on December 30, 2000 within a span of a few hours killing 22 and injuring about a hundred. ... Jemaah Islamiyah, sometimes rendered Jemaah Islamiah, is a militant Islamic terrorist organization dedicated to the establishment of a fundamentalist Islamic theocracy in Southeast Asia, in particular Indonesia, Singapore, Brunei, Malaysia, and the south of Thailand and the Philippines. ... The Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) is an active Islamic movement in the Southern Philippines. ... Riduan Isamuddin Riduan Isamuddin (also transliterated as Riduan Isamudin, Riduan Isomuddin, and Riduan Isomudin, better known by the nom de guerre Hambali, born as Encep Nurjaman, born April 4, 1966) was the leader of the Indonesian terrorist organization Jemaah Islamiyah (JI), which allegedly has a partership with Al Qaeda. ...