Nişantaşı Anatolian High School

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Construction Year:

1911

Location:

Şişli, İstanbul

Ordered By:

Sultan Mehmed V Reşad

Architect:

Unknown

Changes After Construction:
  • A wooden school building was constructed on land in Teşvikiye donated on the condition that it be used as a school; the fire in 1920 damaged a large part of the school, and the repair process was carried out under financial difficulties.
  • Due to the increasing number of boarding and day students after World War II, a need for an additional building arose; permission for the construction of the additional building was obtained in 1955.
  • It was transferred to the Turkish Government in 1979 due to financial difficulties and was named “Nişantaşı Anatolian High School.”
  • The school building underwent restoration in 2014; the restoration process affected the institution in terms of physical use during the 2014–2016 academic periods.
Prominent Features:
  • The structure has also been used under the name “English High School for Boys.”
  • The institution was established in 1905 for the children of the members of the British community in Istanbul.
  • It is recorded that Sultan Abdülhamid II granted land in Firuzağa to the British Embassy for the new school; permission for the sale of this land, which was not found suitable for the school, was given on 12 April 1911, and subsequently, Sultan Mehmed V Reşad donated its current location in Teşvikiye on the condition of it being “only a school.”
  • The granting of permission for the additional building in 1955 ensured that the school became one of the first examples of a foreign school to be expanded after the Treaty of Lausanne.