saint joseph khoronfish

College Saint Joseph Khoronfish is a Catholic school that was established in July 1858 and its land was given as a gift by Khedive Saeed Pasha to the monks who founded it. Many famous people and leaders graduated from it. At that time, the school received the sons of the poor and the rich, and in the year 1864 Khedive Ismail sent 12 young men of the upper family to it with the aim of preparing them to occupy the main jobs in the state

School founding date

In the year 1855, studies began in the new school thanks to the generous donations of the people of the neighborhood, and the school received the children of the poor and the rich in adjacent classes. In the year 1858 Said Pasha Khedive of Egypt gave the monks a plot of land in the Al-Kharnafash (Gamaliya) neighborhood in Cairo, to build a school, which was named Saint Joseph School. In the year 1864, Khedive Ismail sent 12 young men of the upper family, to receive education at St. Joseph School in Al-Kharnafash, with the aim of preparing them to occupy some of the main jobs in the state. And with the year 1890 the law department was opened, in the year 1907 the department of commerce was opened at Al-Kharnafash School, and in 1919 in the Egyptian revolution, the two leaders, Saad Zagloul and Mustafa Kamel, were students of Saint Joseph School. The year 1956 is the year of the transfer of the secondary section from St. Joseph School in Al-Kharnafash to the School of De La Salle in Al-Zahir, and de La Salle is the name of St. John de La Salle, founder of the Congregation of the Brothers of the Christian Schools (Al-Farr), who put his knowledge at the service of the poor, left his home and lived with the teachers He relinquished his position as a priest, and squandered his fortune to found a brotherhood. In 1957, Al-Kharnafash School included nursery, primary and preparatory students from schools at nominal expenses, and this is still present today, and in 1994 the vocational training center was opened at Saint Joseph School. Dr. Hussein Bahaa El-Din, the former Minister of Education, opened in 1995 the new building of St. Joseph School in El-Kharnafash, and in 1999 the secondary section was opened.

Celebrities who studied there

Artists
Najib Al-Rihani, Farid Al-Atrash, Anwar Wagdy, Rushdi Abaza and Abdel Fattah Al-Qasry, in addition to the poet Hussein Al-Sayed

Among the politicians
Mustafa Kamel, Ismail Sedky, Mustafa Fahmy Pasha, Adly Yakan, Ali Sabry, Saad Zaghloul and Ismat Abdel Majid

The school's geographic location

The school is located on 1 Al Shaarani Al Barani Street on the corner of Al Kharanfash Street in the Al Jamaliah District in Cairo. On Al Shaarani Street the Great Sufi Mosque Abdel Wahab Al Shaarani and Al Kharanfash Street, Dar Al Kiswa Al Musharafa. Port Said Street and attached to it, the Freire Association for the care and training of workers and craftsmen.
The school currently has education stages until the end of secondary school (kindergarten - primary - middle - secondary, and it has two sections, French and English

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