Collège de la Sainte Famille

The Collège de la Sainte Famille (English: School of the Holy Family; Arabic: مدرسة العائلة المقدسة), often abbreviated as CSF and referred to as Jésuites, is a private French Catholic international school for boys run by the Near East province of the Society of Jesus in Cairo, Egypt. It was founded in 1879, following a request by Pope Leo XIII for a seminary to help prepare students to become priests.[1]

CSF
Collège de la Sainte Famille
Location
Cairo

Egypt
Coordinates30.0903°N 31.3358°E / 30.0903; 31.3358
Information
TypePrivate Catholic international basic education institution
Religious affiliation(s)Roman Catholic (Jesuit)
Established1879 (1879)
StatusOpen
PrincipalP. Philippe Faragallah SJ
GenderBoys
Age range5 - 18 years
Average class size20 students
Language
Campus typeUrban
Color(s) Blue  and  Gold 
Websitewww.jesuitescsf.com

History

The college began with 16 pupils, in 1879, at the Boghos Palace of Mouski. In 1882 today's college was inaugurated in Faggala. The current Ramses Street was occupied by the Ismailia Canal. The transportation of students was by fiacres. The college had 112 students.

Thereafter was built: the church (1891), the theatre (1892), the current building of Preparatory Cycle (1925), the Primary Cycle in Downtown Cairo (1930), and the Primary Cycle in Heliopolis (1934). In 1930, the college had 600 students from 14 nations: Egypt, France, Lebanon, Syria, Italy, Greece, England, Switzerland, Spain, Yugoslavia, Turkey, Czechoslovakia, Russia, Persia.[1]

Notable alumni

Notable faculty

See also

Notes
  1. "Historique". Collège de la Sainte Famille (in French). Archived from the original on 2018-01-04. Retrieved 2017-09-23.
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