Galata Girls’ Anatolian İmam Hatip High School
Changes After Construction:
- Although there is no definite information in the records about when it was built, it is thought to have been among the buildings developed by the Genoese in the 14th century.
- The building, whose earliest official dated record goes back to 1850, is known to have been used by the British as lodgings and a school for priests.
- Towards the end of the 19th century, it was used by the Austrian Lazarist community as the Sankt Georg Priests’ School.
- Later, during the occupation of Istanbul, the building functioned as a police station and prison under the British, and after the occupation it was also used as an orphanage.
- In the early Republican period, the building served for a time as a Tailoring School, and since the 1940s it has continued to serve for educational purposes under different names.
Prominent Features:
- The campus consists of three separate blocks built at different times.
- Today, the building houses two separate educational institutions and carries out educational activities together with Okçu Musa Primary School.
- Considering that the Galata Association building, to which the school building was constructed in adjoining order, is 700 years old and dates back to the Genoese, it may be thought that part of the building dates from that period.
