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 Jesuit French school for boys in the Faggala (preparatory and secondary section), Daher (primary section), and Heliopolis (primary section) districts of Cairo, Egypt. It was founded in 1879, after a request by Pope Leo XIII for a seminary to help prepare students to become priests in the Catholic Church.[2]

CSF
Collège de la Sainte Famille
Location
Cairo, Egypt
Information
School typePrivate, Jesuit[1]
Religious affiliation(s)Christianity
Established1879 (1879)
StatusOpen
PrincipalPere Nader Michel SJ
Age range5 - 18
LanguageFrench/English/Arabic/Spanish
Campus typeUrban
Colour(s)Blue/Gold   
Websitehttp://www.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.[2]

Notable alumni

Notable Faculty

Footnotes
  1. "Jesuit". Archived from the original on 2017-11-15. Retrieved 2015-11-09.
  2. "Collège de la Sainte Famille". www.jesuitescsf.com. Archived from the original on 2018-01-04. Retrieved 2017-09-23.

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