Lycée Notre Dame de Sion Istanbul
| Lycée Notre Dame de Sion Istanbul Notre Dame de Sion Özel Fransız Lisesi |
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High school building in Cumhuriyet Cad.
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Cumhuriyet Cad. 127 Harbiye, Şişli, Istanbul Turkey |
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| Coordinates | 41°02′41″N 28°59′09″E / 41.04472°N 28.98583°ECoordinates: 41°02′41″N 28°59′09″E / 41.04472°N 28.98583°E |
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| Type | Private, co-educational |
| Religious affiliation(s) | Roman Catholic |
| Established | November 27, 1856 |
| Grades | 9 to 12 |
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Lycée Notre Dame de Sion Istanbul (Turkish: Notre Dame de Sion Özel Fransız Lisesi) is a French private high school located in Harbiye, Şişli neighborhood of Istanbul, Turkey. It was founded in 1856.
The high school was established in the Ottoman Empire as a missionary school for girls only. It was later transformed into a co-educational status. Education in the four grades school (ninth grade to twelfth grade) is in French and Turkish language, and takes four years after a preparatory class of one school year.
A group of eleven French nuns travelled to Istanbul arriving on October 7, 1856. They took over the administration of Maison du Saint-Esprit, a boarding school in Pangaltı neighborhood, which was named after the 1846-built Cathedral of the Holy Spirit next to it, and was run by the Daughters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul (French: Filles de la Charité), a society of apostolic life for women within the Catholic Church. The official opening of the French boarding school under the name Lycée Notre Dame de Sion took place on November 27 the same year. It became the first ever girls' school in Turkey. Inıtially a boarding school for Christian girls, it shortly after attracted Jewish pupils. From 1863 on, Muslim girls attended the school following the interest of the notable families in the Empire and the approval of the Ottoman Sultan.
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