Lycée Notre Dame de Sion Istanbul

Coordinates: 41°02′41″N 28°59′09″E / 41.04472°N 28.98583°E / 41.04472; 28.98583
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Lycée Notre Dame de Sion
Istanbul
Notre Dame de Sion Özel Fransız Lisesi
preparatory class to 12
Websitewww.nds.k12.tr
Lycée Notre Dame de Sion Istanbul is located in Istanbul
Lycée Notre Dame de Sion Istanbul
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Location of Lycée Notre Dame de Sion in Istanbul.

Lycée Notre Dame de Sion Istanbul (Turkish: Notre Dame de Sion Özel Fransız Lisesi) is a French private high school located in the Harbiye, Şişli neighbourhood of Istanbul, Turkey. It was founded in 1856.

The

preparatory class
of one school year.

History

A group of eleven French nuns traveled to Istanbul arriving on October 7, 1856. They took over the administration of Maison du Saint-Esprit, a

Muslim girls attended the school following the interest of the notable families in the Empire and the approval of the Ottoman Sultan.[2][3]

The school closed down during World War I when the French nuns left the country as a result of their country being at war with Turkey.

In 1919, the school reopened. With the foundation of the Turkish Republic in 1923, the school was subordinated to the Ministry of National Education, and Turkish administrators and teachers joined the school staff. It began also to serve as a day school. The primary school section was closed in 1971, and the boarding school in 1972. From 1989 on, the head of the school administration was handed over to a secular rector while the nuns remained serving in the school as well. After a 140-year long tradition of girls only school, it went co-educational, accepting boys with the 1996–97 school year.[2]

Cultural projects

An international piano contest was organized by the school in 2013.[4]

A chamber music concert was performed in the school in 2014 in commemoration of harpist Fatma Ceren Necipoğlu, who died at the Air France Flight 447 accident in 2009.[5]

In 2015, the art gallery of the school hosted an exhibition titled "Osmanlı'dan Cumhuriyet'e Kadınlar" (literally:Women from the Ottoman Empire to the Turkish Republic) showing Christian, Jewish and Muslim women mainly on postcards from 1880 to 1930.[6]

Notable alumni

Fiction
  • Feride, novel character

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Notre Dame de Sion Fransız Lisesi 158 yaşında". Hürriyet (in Turkish). 2014-01-13. Retrieved 2015-06-30.
  2. ^ a b c "Tarihçe" (in Turkish). Notre Dame de Sion Özel Fransız Lisesi. Retrieved 2015-06-30.
  3. ^ "Şişli". Zaman (in Turkish). 2007-07-01. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2015-06-30.
  4. ^ "Istanbul's French high school launches new piano contest". Hürriyet Daily News. 2012-12-22. Retrieved 2015-06-30.
  5. ^ Çiyan, Deniz (2014-12-18). "Chamber music trio to give concert in memory of late Turkish harpist Necipoğlu". Hürriyet Daily News. Retrieved 2015-06-30.
  6. ^ "Notre Dame de Sion'dan "Osmanlı'dan Cumhuriyet'e Kadınlar" sergisi". Radikal (in Turkish). 2015-03-05. Retrieved 2015-06-30.
  7. ^ "Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu neşteri vurdu". Posta (in Turkish). 2015-04-07. Retrieved 2015-06-30.
  8. ^ "Güzin Abla kimdir - Biyografi.net.tr" (in Turkish). Retrieved 2022-11-25.
  9. ^ "Nazlı Ilıcak Biyografisi". Herkul Haber (in Turkish). 2015-06-16. Archived from the original on 2015-06-18. Retrieved 2015-06-30.

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