Collège des Frères (Bab al-Louq)

Collège des Frères (Bab al-Louq)
Collège-des-Frères (Bab al-Louq)
Collège-des-Frères main building from inside the campus.
Location
El-Sheikh-Rihan st. (main gate).
Falaki st. (west gate).
Mansour st. (east gate)
Bab al-Louq, Cairo

Egypt
Information
Type Private
Religious affiliation(s) Catholic
Patron saint(s) St. Jean-Baptiste de la Salle
Established 1888
School district Abdeen
Principal M. Medhat Nassif Kamel
Grades Kinder Garden,
Primary,
Preparatory,
Secondary.
Gender Males.
Number of students 800
Language French
Affiliation Lasallian
Website

Collège-des-Frères (Bab al-Louq) (French), (English: The Brothers' College (Bab al-Louq) (Egyptian Arabic: مدرسة الفرير, باب اللوق, IPA: [mædˈɾæst el feˈɾeːɾ ˈbæːb elˈluːʔ]), or simply Frères Bab el-Louk is a French school in Bab al-Louq (or Bab el-Louk), a neighborhood in downtown Cairo, and is one of six Lasallian schools in Egypt of which four are located in Cairo and two in Alexandria.

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History

On June 3, 1888, two brothers, Les Frères (French for "the brothers"), began their mission at St. Joseph school near St. Joseph church at Banque Misr St. in Downtown Cairo. The first class had only two students.

  • In 1900, on the canonization of St. Jean-Baptiste de la Salle, the school changed its name to the name of the founder of the Brothers,and it became Jean-Baptiste de la Salle school.
  • In 1906, Les Frères bought the property of Moustafa Fahmy Pasha which is the current site of the school, in Bab al-Louq, one of the oldest districts of Cairo.
  • In 1908, the construction of a new building started.
  • The first mass was conducted on March 25, 1914.
  • In 1917, the number of students had reached 300.
  • In 1918, the school included 10 classes, with two others for the free school St Antoine in the place of the current division of the Nursery school.
  • In 1922, the number of student reached 500.
  • In 1992, a new building was constructed along Falaky street to receive students of the secondary cycle that made it possible for the students to continue their secondary studies within their own establishment. Computer labs, and Science labs, as well as video rooms were built.

Patron saint

Saint Jean-Baptiste de la salle

St. Jean-Baptiste de la Salle

see: Jean-Baptiste de la Salle

St. Jean-Baptiste de la Salle was born in Rheims, France on April 30, 1651. He was 29 years old when he realized that the educational system of his day was inadequate to meet the needs of the poor children of Seventeenth Century France. To provide a Christian and human education, De La Salle founded a religious community of men, the Brothers of the Christian Schools (Fratres Scholarum Christianarum), dedicated to the instruction of youth, especially the poor. De La Salle died on Good Friday, April 7, 1719. He was canonized a saint of the Catholic Church in 1900 and declared "Universal Patron of All Teachers" by his Holiness Pope Pius XII in 1950. The feast of St. Jean-Baptiste de La Salle is celebrated on the 15th of May by the worldwide Lasallian movement.

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