Collège de la Sainte Famille

The Collège de la Sainte Famille (English: School of the Holy Family; Arabic: مدرسة العائلة المقدسة), often abbreviated as CSF and referred to as Jésuites, is a private French Catholic international school for boys run by the Near East province of the Society of Jesus in Cairo, Egypt.

It was founded in 1879, following a request by Pope Leo XIII for a seminary to help prepare students to become priests.

[1] The college began with 16 pupils, in 1879, at the Boghos Palace of Mouski.

The current Ramses Street was occupied by the Ismailia Canal.

In 1930, the college had 600 students from 14 nations: Egypt, France, Lebanon, Syria, Italy, Greece, England, Switzerland, Spain, Yugoslavia, Turkey, Czechoslovakia, Russia, Persia.