Kandilli High School for Girls
| Kandilli Anatolian High School for Girls Kandilli Kız Anadolu Lisesi |
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 Kandilli Anatolian High School for Girls
Location of the school in Istanbul, Turkey
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Kandilli Cad. Liseli Sok. 1 Kandilli, Istanbul, 34684 Turkey |
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| Coordinates | 41°04′17″N 29°03′26″E / 41.07139°N 29.05722°ECoordinates: 41°04′17″N 29°03′26″E / 41.07139°N 29.05722°E |
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| Type | Public Anatolian High School |
| Established | 1916 |
| Founder | Ahmed Rıza |
| Gender | Girls |
| Website | www |
Kandilli Anatolian High School for Girls (Turkish: Kandilli Kız Anadolu Lisesi) is a secondary educational institution located in the Kandilli neighborhood of Üsküdar district in Istanbul, Turkey. Known traditionally as Kandilli Kız Lisesi, it is one of the oldest girls' high schools of the country and a top-level Anatolian High School.
The prominent Young Turk activist, statesman, educational reformer Ahmed Rıza and her sister Selma Rıza intended the school to be opened as early as the first decade of the 20th century as the first public girls' high school in the Ottoman Empire, as the girls branch of the Galatasaray High School, but the Balkan Wars, the Italo-Turkish War, and World War I prevented this project from happening. The Ottoman princess Adile Sultan had donated her summer residence, the Adile Sultan Palace, to the state shortly before her death in 1899 under the condition that it be turned into a secondary school for girls. The residence had been constructed upon orders of her brother, Sultan Abdülaziz (reigned 1861–76) on an unregistered date.
Ahmed Rıza finally succeeded in opening the school in 1916 under the name Adile Sultan İnas Mekteb-i Sultanisi ("Adile Sultan Imperial Girls School") in Kandilli, on the Asian bank of the Bosphorus in the Adile Sultan Palace building. The first graduates left the school in 1920. The school was renamed in 1924 after its location, becoming the Kandilli Secondary School. In 1931, the school took on its present name Kandilli High School for Girls (later becoming a public Anatolian High School), and has been a respected educational institution since then.
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