page_title: Mona, Jamaica
section_title: University of the West Indies
hierarchical_section_title: Mona, Jamaica / Educational and medical facilities / University of the West Indies
caption_attribution_description: English: Chapel on Mona Campus of the University of the West Indies, on the left Aqueduct for the supply of sugar mills Deutsch: Kapelle auf dem Mona Campus der University of the West Indies, links im Bild Reste der Aquädukte zur Versorgung der Zuckerrohr-Mühlen
context_page_description: Mona is a neighbourhood in southeastern Saint Andrew Parish, approximately eight kilometres from Kingston, Jamaica. A former sugarcane plantation, it is the site of a reservoir serving the city of Kingston and the main campus of the University of the West Indies.
context_section_description: In 1948, the Mona campus was established as a college of the University of London. It is the first campus of the multi-campus University of the West Indies system. In October 1948, it accepted 33 medical students. In 1949 and 1950, Natural Science and the Arts were added to the curriculum, respectively. It now offers undergraduate, masters and doctoral courses in a wide range of subjects.
  The University of the West Indies Mona campus is situated on the former site of the camp. Wooden buildings erected for the refugee camp were repurposed to become the original campus structures, which included lecture halls, laboratories, residence halls, and office buildings. These buildings were augmented with new construction that began in the early 1950s. Ruins from the Mona Estate, a sugar plantation, are present on the campus, including a water wheel, aqueducts, and mills. The chapel was built from stone blocks from an old, abandoned mansion in Trelawny.
caption: Chapel on the Mona campus of the University of the West Indies, on the left Aqueduct from the former sugar plantation
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