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Armenian Evangelical Secondary School of Anjar

The Armenian Evangelical Secondary School of Anjar (Armenian: Հայ Աւետարանական Երկրորդական Վարժարան Այնճար) was founded by Swiss Missionaries in 1947. It has a dormitory for boys and girls.

Armenian Evangelical Secondary School of Anjar
Location
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Anjar
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Bekaa

Lebanon
Coordinates33°43′42″N 35°55′59″E / 33.72825357329613°N 35.93291752646912°E / 33.72825357329613; 35.93291752646912
Information
TypePrivate
Established1947
PrincipalRev. Hagop Akbasharian
GradesKindergarten - 12th
Religious AffiliationArmenian Evangelical Church
Website[1]

The present principal is Rev. Hagop Akbasharian.

History

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Soon after the Armenian people of Musa Dagh were settled in the village of Anjar located in the Bekaa Valley, Lebanon in 1939, the Armenian Evangelical School (elementary section) started to operate in the newly constructed church building. In 1947, at the peak of Second World War and while Anjarians refugees were suffering during these hard times, the school gave its first graduates from the elementary section. In 1947, Sister Hedwig Aienshanslin, member of the Swiss-German Hilfsbund Mission, arrived in Anjar and started the missionary work in a single room. In 1948, she was asked to assume the responsibility of running the school. Soon the elementary school became a junior high school. In 1955, the boarding department was established with 15 students from Kessab, Beirut and Zahleh. Two other sisters Mary Rock and Anna Nitsche joined sister Hedwig.

Notable alumni

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See also

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