An imposing frontage for a local secondary school, the Namık Kemal Lycee. The grounds had a small ‘Christian’ cemetery till after 1986, reached by a ‘secret’ underground tunnel about 50 m. long, from the basement. The British dominated inter-allied war commission headquarters were here (based on recollections in the Bülent Moralı book). According to the researcher George Vassiadis, the Namık Kemal Lycee had actually just been finished in 1922 and was intended as the new home of the Evangeliki School (Kendrikon Parthenagogion), but for obvious reasons the school never moved in. The original Evangeliki School was very close to the Church of Agia Photini. Further info - view of original building From 1924 onwards the building served as the Izmir Girls’ Lycee, from 1939 onwards became a Boys’ Lycee, with frequent name changes till 1952 when it received the name Namık Kemal Lycee.
image courtesy of Andrew Simes
image courtesy of Andrew Simes
image courtesy of Andrew Simes
image courtesy of Andrew Simes
image courtesy of Andrew Simes
image courtesy of Andrew Simes
image courtesy of Andrew Simes
image courtesy of Andrew Simes
image courtesy of Andrew Simes
Emblem on the building reinforcing the historical appraisal that the school was never used by the Greeks.