Ioakimeion Girls' School
Fener Yoakimion Rum Kız Lisesi Vakfı
A Rum community foundation (vakıf) in Fener.
- Official name
- Fener Yoakimion Rum Kız Lisesi Vakfı
- District
- Fener
- Type
- School
- Status
- Inactive
- Founded
- 1882
Patriarch Joachim II donated the land for a girls’ school in Fener, and Patriarch Joachim III laid the foundation stone of the building in 1879 and continued its construction; the school was named after both. The school began operating in 1882. Its curriculum included pedagogy, and its graduates were qualified to teach in girls’ schools; in 1910 it had 590 pupils. The last pupils graduated in 1988, and the school was officially closed in 2011. The building hosted an exhibition of the Istanbul Biennial in 2013 and has hosted theatre events since 2016.
The information on this page is documented by the sources listed at the end.
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Image credit: Sadrettin, Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
Sources
- Rum Vakıfları Derneği — Vakıflarımız
- Σύνδεσμος Υποστήριξης Ρωμαίικων Κοινοτικών Ιδρυμάτων — Τα βακούφια μας
- ΙΩΑΚΕΙΜΕΙΟΝ ΠΑΡΘΕΝΑΓΩΓΕΙΟΝ — rumvader.org
- Fener Yoakimion Rum Kız Lisesi Vakfı — rumvader.org
- Εθνικό Ιωακείμειο Παρθεναγωγείο Κωνσταντινουπόλεως — Greek Wikipedia — operated 1882-1988; accessed 2026-10
- Ioakeimeion Girls' High School — English Wikipedia — foundation stone 1879; opening three years later; pedagogy; 590 pupils in 1910; accessed 2026-10
- Yoakimion Rum Kız Lisesi — Turkish Wikipedia — naming after the two patriarchs; last graduates 1988, official closure 2011; Biennial 2013 and theatre since 2016; accessed 2026-10
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