The French Lyceum of Our Lady of Sion ( tour: Notre Dame de Sion Özel Fransız Lisesi ) is a French private school located in the Harbiye quarter of the Sisli district in Istanbul ( Turkey ).
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It was founded in 1856 in the Ottoman Empire as a girls-only missionary school. He later became a lyceum of coeducation. Teaching from the ninth to twelfth grade is conducted in French and Turkish and takes four years after the completion of the preparatory class in one academic year.
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History
A group of 11 French nuns arrived in Istanbul on October 7, 1856. They took over the management of the House of the Holy Spirit ( French: Maison du Saint-Esprit ), a boarding school in the Pangalt quarter, which was named after the Holy Spirit Cathedral built next to it in 1846. It was run by the daughters of mercy ( French Filles de la Charité ), a community of apostolic life for women in the Catholic Church . The official opening of the French boarding school under the name "Lyceum of Our Lady in Zion" took place on November 27 of the same year [1] . He became the first school for girls in the Ottoman Empire. In the boarding school for Christian girls, Jews soon began to appear. Since 1863, Muslim women were also able to attend school after the request of noble families of the empire and the approval of the Ottoman sultan [2] [3] .
The school closed during World War I when French nuns fled the country during a difficult war in which their country was an adversary of the Ottoman Empire.
In 1919, the Lyceum reopened. Since the founding of the Republic of Turkey in 1923, it was subordinate to the Ministry of National Education, and Turkish administrators and teachers became part of the school staff. The lyceum also began to perform the functions of a day school. The elementary school was liquidated in 1971, and the boarding school in 1972. Since 1989, the head of the school administration began to be elected from the secular, while at the same time, the nuns continued to work in the school. Since the academic year 1996/1997, the lyceum began to accept boys for training, thus interrupting the 140-year history of the school as an educational institution exclusively for girls [2] .
Cultural Events
The international piano competition was organized by the Lyceum in 2013 [4] .
In 2014, a chamber music concert was held at the school in memory of harpist Fatma Jeren Nejipoglu , who died as a result of the crash of Flight 447 of Air France in 2009 [5] .
In 2015, an exhibition entitled “Women from the Ottoman Empire to the Republic of Turkey” ( tour: Osmanlı'dan Cumhuriyet'e Kadınlar ), showing Christian, Jewish and Muslim women, mainly on postcards from 1880 to 1930, was held in the art gallery of the Lyceum . [6] .
Famous Graduates
- Three adoptive daughters of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk , including Afet Inan (1908-1985), were educated at the Lyceum of Our Lady in Zion [2] .
- Isla Aygan (born 1937), actress and singer
- Adil Aida (1912-1992), diplomat
- Oya Baidar (born 1940), sociologist and writer
- Alie Berger (1903-1974), artist, engraver and painter [1] ,
- Selina Dogan (born 1977), lawyer and politician [7]
- Balčicek Ilter (b. 1973), journalist and television presenter
- Afet Inan (1908-1985), historian
- Nazly Ylıjak (born 1944), journalist and writer [8]
- Susan Kahramaner (1913-2006), mathematician
- Furey Coral (1910-1997), ceramist
- Matild Manukyan (1916 / 1917-2001), owner of the brothel network
- Bedia Muwahit (1897-1994), actress [1]
- Turkan Rado (1915-2007), professor of law
- Pynar Selek (born 1971), sociologist, writer, and feminist
- Fachronis Zeid (1901-1991), artist [1]
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 Notre Dame de Sion Fransız Lisesi 158 yaşında ( Turkish ) (January 13, 2014). Circulation date May 27, 2019.
- ↑ 1 2 3 Tarihçe ( turkish ) (neopr.) ? . Notre Dame de Sion Özel Fransız Lisesi. Circulation date May 27, 2019.
- ↑ Şişli (tur.) (Neopr.) ? (unavailable link) (July 1, 2007). Date of treatment May 27, 2019. Archived March 4, 2016.
- ↑ Istanbul's French high school launches new piano contest (December 22, 2012). Circulation date May 27, 2019.
- ↑ Çiyan, Deniz. Chamber music trio to give concert in memory of late Turkish harpist Necipoğlu (December 18, 2014). Circulation date May 27, 2019.
- ↑ Notre Dame de Sion'dan "Osmanlı'dan Cumhuriyet'e Kadınlar" sergisi ( Turkish ) (neopr.) ? (March 5, 2015). Circulation date May 27, 2019.
- ↑ Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu neşteri vurdu ( tur .) (Neopr.) ? (April 7, 2015). Circulation date May 27, 2019.
- ↑ Nazlı Ilıcak Biyografisi ( tur .) (Neopr.) ? (June 16, 2015). Date accessed May 27, 2019. Archived June 18, 2015.