Istanbul Girls High School

Istanbul Girls' High School (Turkish: İstanbul Kız Lisesi: 1850-1988)[1] was the first state established girls' school in the Ottoman Empire.

The school was inaugurated on March 21, 1850, by Sadrazam Mustafa Reshid Pasha, one of the architects of the Tanzimat reforms, in a building donated by Bezmiâlem Sultan, mother of Sultan Abdulmejid I.

[citation needed] During most of the republican period in Turkey, the school was known under the name İstanbul Kız Lisesi, but always related to its founding mother Bezm-i Alem, whose name it carried officially as Bezm-i Alem Sultanisi for about a decade until 1924, when it was renamed.

It ceased receiving new students in 1984, had its final graduates in 1988, and then closed down.

At its closure, its building became Cağaloğlu Anatolian High School.