1 gen 1891 anni - Girl's School Opened by Sevasti Qiriazi

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The Korça Girls School (1891–1914)[edit]
Founding and operations[edit]
After her graduation from college, Sevasti returned to Monastir and then to Korçë, where she joined her brother Gjerasim in opening an Albanian-language school for girls. Sevasti was its director. The school operated under difficult conditions including poverty, prejudice against female education, difficulty in obtaining books, political opposition from local Ottoman authorities, and political and ecclesiastical opposition from the Greek Orthodox Church.[15]: 4–6  Despite these unfavorable circumstances, the school maintained an average yearly enrollment of 47 students during 1891–1913.[16] The school received significant visitors such as Edith Durham in 1901 and Henry Brailsford in 1904.[4]: 102, 106–107 

Religious instruction[edit]
At the time of its existence, the school was known as a Protestant Christian school.[17] Its founders were Evangelicals,[18] it was supported by Protestant organizations,[19] its educational curriculum included religious subjects with biblical texts,[20][21] and its premises were used for Evangelical Sunday School and worship services.[22] However, the school welcomed students of all religions and its teachers did not require conversion to Protestantism.[23] It was praised by Albanians of all religions and classes as being a "national nest" (fole kombëtare).[24]

Leadership[edit]

Staff of the Girls School and Evaneglical Work in Kortcha Albania in 1894
When Gjerasim Qiriazi died in 1894, Sevasti Qiriazi (at approximately 23 years old) assumed full responsibility for the Girls School.[4]: 93–95  She shared leadership over the following years with Luka Tira, Fanka Efthim, Thanas Sina, Grigor Cilka, Gjergj Qiriazi, and Gjon Ciko,[4]: 92  and she eventually solicited the help of the American Protestant missionaries Phineas and Violet Bond Kennedy, who arrived in Korça in 1908 (Violet was the daughter of an American Protestant missionary in Monastir, Lewis Bond, and was Sevasti's close friend throughout childhood and college).[15]: 6 [4]: 64 

Closure[edit]
The school continued to function through 1914, when war conditions and Greek hostilities in Korça forced its closure.[4]: 155–165 

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