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The Convent of Jesus Mary, Murree is a girls school located in Murree, Punjab, Pakistan. It was founded in 1876, by a French woman named Claudine Thévenet, foundress of the Religious of Jesus Mary, whose sole purpose for the school was to train young ladies so that they make good housewives and women in life. Though this is a ...
- 1876; 147 years ago
- Claudine Thévenet
- Sister Mercedes
- Private primary and secondary school
- Location of The Place
- Background
- Arrival of The RJM in 1876
- Building and Structure
- Beginning of School 1877
- The School Inspection in 1879
- Fire in Murree in 1904
- The Initial State After The Fire
- Boarding School Closed 2007
- At The Present
Murree was a small military station mainly for soldiers to recuperate from wounds after a skirmish in the North West Frontier, or an attack of Cholera or typhoid. Monsignor Jacobi tried to get a boarding school established in Murree, then known as the “Queen of the Hills”. He found a large area of land available at Pindi Point, where there had been...
Murree lies at approx 6000 ft. at the foot of the Himalayas in Pakistan. It is an alpine hill-station in the North of the Punjab Province, bordering the Kashmir region that lies on a horizontal ridge running in East-West direction. Murree was established as a summer 'hill-station' for the British families in order to escape the heat of the Indian p...
In 1876, the Bishop of Agra gave a property named "Woodburn" on Pindi Point for the Religious of Jesus and Mary, a French order of Catholic sisters. The sisters started the convent and school for the education of girls, mainly orphans. A number of boarders were soon admitted. The Convent of Jesus and Mary in Murree, is still considered one of the b...
The house provided by Bishop Jacobi for them, was an old Victorian property. There were sufficient rooms downstairs for classrooms, dining rooms, a parlour and a small chapel. At the back was a large kitchen and scullery. There was also a small annexe at one side of the building. Upstairs there were large rooms for use as dormitories. Each room had...
At first there were not many boarders but there were many applicants to accept Catholic orphans. Some children from Rawalpindi who came up to Murree in the summer, were sent as day scholars to the school.
There are no complete reports of the first years but the following is distinctive, “the Convent consists of two separate branches, the first class boarding school called St. Aloysius and second class boarding school called St. Michael’s. This latter is amalgamated with the orphanage. The two establishments are under the general supervision and cont...
In the early hours of the morning of May 30th 1904 when all the children and community were in bed, a fire broke out in one of the rooms of St. Michael’s orphanage, where the linen was kept. There were 114 children and 8 religious in the Murree Convent at the time. The alarm was given at 3:30 am by one of the girls. Smoke was pouring into the dormi...
Thus, the school grew steadily in numbers and progressed in every way. In 1913, the junior school block was completed; in 1924 the chapel was built. The year 1930, saw the erection of the Teachers’ Cottage and in the 1960’s the present senior school classrooms and the extension to the main building were added.
Unfortunately, the phasing out of the ‘O’ level boarding school commenced in 2004, and it was finally closed in 2007. There was much sadness expressed, chiefly by past pupils over this, but many factors contributed to the taking of this major decision. One of the main reasons was, that now there were plenty of good schools across the country, so th...
Now in 2021, the Convent of Jesus and Mary Murree, is an English Medium school, offering the Higher Secondary School (Matriculation Examination) and is growing in all senses. It now has 1044 students on the Rolls from classes Pre-Nursery to class X. 374 are girls and 670 boys. There are 50 teaching staff members and 30 workers. The increase in the ...
13. Dez. 2023 · Welcome to the Convent of Jesus and Mary, Murree! As the Principal of this prestigious school, I would like to welcome all of you. It is a privilege for me to be part of the history of this institution, which was founded in 1876. I dedicate the creation of this website to all our past pupils, who collaborated with us with their generous ...
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The Convent of Jesus and Mary, Murree is a girls school located in Murree, Punjab, Pakistan. It was founded in 1876, by a French woman named Claudine …
A little further down the ridge, the British built a convent and named it the Convent of Jesus and Mary. Today, it is one of the best girls’ boarding schools in Pakistan. After secession from India, the government of Pakistan procured this site from private landowners.
Description. Convent of Jesus and Mary Murree is a girls school located in Murree, Punjab, Pakistan. It was founded in 1876, by a French woman named Claudine Thévenet, foundress of the Religious of Jesus Mary, whose sole purpose for the school was to train young ladies so that they make good housewives and women in life.
