The Women's Seminary in Beit Jala is an educational institution founded by the Imperial Orthodox Palestine Society in 1890 in the Arab village of Beit Jala , about 10 km south of the Old City of Jerusalem . The seminary trained IEPO elementary school teachers in Palestine and Syria . Graduates of the seminary taught the Law of God , Arabic, arithmetic, geography, history and crafts, as well as Russian.
History
In 1866, Archimandrite Antonin (Kapustin) , head of the Russian Ecclesiastical Mission, in the name of the dragoman Yakub Khalebi bought two plots of land in the Arab village of Beit Jala. On the Dahra site (1.32 hectares) [1] a two-storey school building for girls was built at the expense of Empress Maria Alexandrovna . [2] The first Russian school for Arab children, established in 1858 by EF Bodrova, was transferred here from Jerusalem . Her transfer was caused by the discontent of the Greek Patriarchate. [3] Later the school was transformed into the first Middle East women's gymnasium. An outpatient clinic was built next to the school at the expense of O. E. Putyatin, the daughter of admiral and diplomat E. V. Putyatin . [4] In 1880, the school was closed by Father Antonin due to lack of funds and the emergency condition of the premises.
In 1886, the site together with the school is donated to IEPO . In 1890, the IAPO opens a women's teacher's seminary there, modeled on the men's teacher's seminary operating in the city of Nazareth since 1886 [5] . The Seminary prepared teachers for IEPO elementary schools in Palestine and Syria, of which there were about 70 by 1900 (about 10,000 students). [6] In 1896 the site was transferred to the name of the Russian government .
World War I
Since the beginning of the First World War, the head of the seminary, M. N. Trapeznikova, was recommended to close the seminary and school, which was done. But she soon returned to Beit Jala, despite the danger that threatened her. Together with her, E. M. Voronyanskaya's sister of mercy returned, and later a teacher M. I. Silina. However, in the summer of 1915, Turkish troops entered Beit Jala, and all the buildings — the school, the school, and the out-patient clinic — were requisitioned and converted into soldiers' barracks and an infirmary. [6]
C 1917 the site was administered by the ROCOR . In 1978 he was sold to the municipal authorities of Bethlehem . Seminary buildings and schools are not preserved. Outpatient clinic turned into a cafe-museum of Beit Jala of the XIX — XX centuries [2] .
Teaching
The seminary studied Turkish, English and French, the basics of the humanities and technical sciences. Teaching was conducted only in Russian. By 1914, just over 100 teachers received diplomas (this, together with graduates of the Male Teacher Seminary in Nazareth).
Programs for schools and seminaries were compiled as well as examined by Russian Arabists, such as I. Yu. Krachkovsky , N. A. Mednikov , M. O. Attaya, D. V. Semenov, and others. [7]
Alumni
- Ode-Vasilyeva, Claudia Viktorovna (1908)
Notes
- Russian objects in Palestine, Lebanon and Syria (as of 1903) // Kommersant newspaper No. 217 (1620) of 11/20/1998
- ↑ 1 2 N.N. Lisova. To the shrines of the Orthodox East. On the trip of the delegation of IOPS to Athos, to the Holy Land and Egypt
- ↑ Lisova N. N. School IEPO activities in Palestine
- ↑ Beit Jala. Orthodox encyclopedia
- ↑ Russian schools in the Holy Land. Appendix II. Russia in the Holy Land. Collection of documents. Ed. "International relationships". T.1. Page 720
- ↑ 1 2 Under the sail of hope. Part III Vokrug Sveta Magazine, No. 3 (2618), March 1992]
- ↑ Krylov A.V. Sorokina N.M. Russian Palestine (On the 125th anniversary of the Imperial Orthodox Palestinian Society and the 160th anniversary of the Russian Ecclesiastical Mission in Jerusalem)
Links
- Ode-Vasilyeva (nee. Ode) Claudia (Kulsum, Kelsum) Viktorovna (1892-1965). People and destinies
- School E.F. Bodrovoy. To the 150th anniversary of the Russian academic affairs in the Holy Land. Rb Butova
- School activities IEPO in Palestine. N.N. Fox
- To the shrines of the Orthodox East. On the trip of the delegation of IOPS to Athos, to the Holy Land and Egypt. N.N. Fox
- School activities of the Imperial Orthodox Palestinian Society // Publication on the official portal of the Imperial Orthodox Palestinian Society
- Educational and medical institutions of the Imperial Orthodox Palestinian Society. Report member of the Society. N. M. Anichkov . Part II. St. Petersburg. 1910 // Publication on the official portal of the Jerusalem branch of the Imperial Orthodox Palestinian Society. July 19, 2014