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Jo Jo Cole/Ekzarch Yosif Foreign Language School

Ekzarch Yosif Foreign Language School (GPCHE "Еkzarch Yosif“) is a secondary school in Razgrad.

History

Photo of the teachers at the five-class school of Razgrad for the school 1888/1889 year. Sitting on the floor from left to right: Dimitar Т. Strashimirov and Aleksey Shulgovski; sitting on chairs: Yordan Genchev, Iliya Т. Iliev, Nikola Kardzhiev, Pascal Rachev; standing: Vatslav Тrunechek and two other unidentified.

Towards the end of the 19th century the local community of Razgrad took the decision of removing the school to a new building. The project was commisioned to the Austrian architect Friedrich Grünanger and was carried out within two years. The new baroque styled school building opened for the first time its doors to all-boy classes over the 1885/1886 school year. In 1895/96 the course of study was extended by adding a seventh class to the existing curriculum with which the class school became part of the group of nine national all-boy full-curriculum secondary schools. On 7 April 1902 the school was titled Full-Curriculum Regional Boys' Secondary School to the name of Ekzarch Yosif I on the occasion of 25 years of public benefit activity and with the personal blessing of the Bulgarian Exarchate Joseph I of Bulgaria.

Photo of the class teachers in Razgrad, 1898

In 1890 at the school was set up the first Marxism self-education society in Razgrad and its countryside, subsequently marking the International Workers' Day.

Throughout the dfferent stages of its existence the secondary school had various official names, "Nikola Vaptsarov" being the one it had from 1948 to 1991.

The Secondary school today

The original old building of the Secondary school of Razgrad holds the status of a cultural monument of local significance.

The school works one shift.

External links

• Местоположение – Уикимапия

References

[[Category:Secondary education]] [[Category:Razgrad]]