Getronagan is an

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minority high school in the

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, The school is attached to the Saint Gregory the Illuminator Church.

Establishment

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With the sponsorship of Archbishop Nerses Varjabetyan, Getronagan High School opened its doors on September 1, 1886. The

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, the Patriarch of Armenians in İstanbul, conducted the opening commencement. Minas Cheraz became its first principal.

Today

Getronagan teaches both sexes. In 2001, the school had 182 students. The school teaches mainly in Turkish, but it also has

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classes.

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(both optional) are taught as foreign languages.

Notable alumni

Hrachia Adjarian Hrachia Acharian ( hy, Հրաչեայ Աճառեան, reformed spelling: Հրաչյա Աճառյան ; 8 March 1876 – 16 April 1953) was an Armenian linguist, lexicographer, etymologist, and philologist. An Istanbul Armenian, Acharian stud ...

- linguist * Vazken Andréassian - engineer * Şahan Arzruni - pianist *

Hayko Cepkin Hayko Cepkin (born 11 March 1978) is a Turkish musician of Armenian descent. Beginnings Hayko Cepkin has shared the stage with the likes of Kurban, Öztürk, Birol Namoğlu, Ogün Sanlısoy, Aylin Aslım, Koray Candemir and Demir Demirkan. ...

- singer * Onnik Chifte-Saraf - writer * Arshag Chobanian - writer * Ara Guler - photographer *

Aram Haigaz Aram Haigaz ( Armenian: Արամ Հայկազ - March 22, 1900 - March 10, 1986) was the pen name of Aram Chekenian, an Armenian writer who was born in the town of Shabin Karahisar, Ottoman Empire, and survived the Armenian genocide in 1915. He ...

- writer * Karekin II Kazanjian - patriarch * Mıgırdiç Margosyan - writer, Principal of Surp Haç * Misak Metsarents - poet *

Sarkis Minassian Sarkis Minassian (1873 – 1915), also known as Aram Ashod, was an Armenian journalist, writer, political activist, and educator. He became the chief editor of the newspaper '' Hairenik'' in Watertown, Massachusetts. After returning to the Ottoma ...

- journalist * Kegham Parseghian - writer * Nigoghos Sarafian - writer, poet * Levon Shant - writer, poet * Soghomon Tehlirian - assassin of Talaat Pasha * Léon Arthur Tutundjian - painter * Harutyun Varpurciyan - architect * Nishan Yaubyan - architect * Yerukhan - writer

Notable teachers and faculty

* Yeghia Demirjibashian - poet * Melkon Giurdjian - writer *

Hovhannes Hintliyan Hovhannes Hintliyan ( hy, Յովհաննէս Հինդլիեան, Üsküdar, Ottoman Empire, 1866 – Istanbul, March 16, 1950) was an Armenian teacher, pedagogue, publisher, and educator. He was the founder of Nor Tbrots (New School), a presti ...

- educator (principal) * Zareh Kalfayan - painter * Kegham Kavafyan - architect (principal) *

Vahan Tekeyan Vahan Tekeyan ( hy, Վահան Թէքէեան (January 21, 1878, Constantinople - April 4, 1945, Cairo) was an Armenian poet and public activist. In his lifetime he was the most famous poet of the Armenian diaspora, and he remains a significant sy ...

- writer, poet (principal) * Tovmas Terzian - writer, playwright

References

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Establishment

Today

Notable alumni

Notable teachers and faculty

See also

References