BÜMED MEÇ Schools

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Construction Year:

1871

Location:

Kadıköy, İstanbul

Ordered By:

Unknown

Architect:

Unknown

Changes After Construction:
  • The building was associated with the educational structures moved to new buildings in 1898, attached to the campus of the school that continued the Greek primary schools opened in Caferağa in 1861.
  • In 1924, it was recorded that the school had two secondary-level classes in addition to six primary school classes.
  • The school, which had only 5 students in 2005 and 1 student in 2011, ended its activity as a Greek school in 2011.
  • In 2013, it was taken over by BÜMED as a private school campus and began to be used as an active educational structure at the kindergarten and primary school levels.
Prominent Features:
  • The building is also referred to in the sources as Kadıköy Greek Primary School and Câferağa Greek Primary School.
  • It was described as a three-storey masonry building; it is stated that there was a large courtyard at the rear and that access was provided by marble stairs after the iron-barred gate.
  • It is one of the representative structures in Caferağa of the tradition of Greek community schools reflecting the multilayered educational history of Kadıköy.