| Collège-des-Frères (Bab al-Louq) | |
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| Collège-des-Frères main building from inside the campus. | |
| Location | |
| El-Sheikh-Rihan st. (main gate). Falaki st. (west gate). Mansour st. (east gate) Bab al-Louq, Cairo Egypt |
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| Information | |
| Type | Private |
| Religious affiliation(s) | Catholic |
| Patron saint(s) | St. Jean-Baptiste de la Salle |
| Established | 1888 |
| School district | Abdeen |
| Principal | M. Medhat Nassif Kamel |
| Grades | Kinder Garden, Primary, Preparatory, Secondary. |
| Gender | Males. |
| Number of students | 800 |
| Language | French |
| Affiliation | Lasallian |
| Website | Collège-des-Frères (Bab el-Louk). |
Collège-des-Frères (Bab al-Louq) (French), (English: The Brothers' College (Bab al-Louq) (Egyptian Arabic: مدرسة الفرير, باب اللوق, IPA: [mædˈɾæst el feˈɾeːɾ ˈbæːb elˈluːʔ]), or simply Frères Bab el-Louk is a French school in Bab al-Louq (or Bab el-Louk), a neighborhood in downtown Cairo, and is one of six Lasallian schools in Egypt of which four are located in Cairo and two in Alexandria.
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On June 3, 1888, two brothers, Les Frères (French for "the brothers"), began their mission at St. Joseph school near St. Joseph church at Banque Misr St. in Downtown Cairo. The first class had only two students.
see: Jean-Baptiste de la Salle
St. Jean-Baptiste de la Salle was born in Rheims, France on April 30, 1651. He was 29 years old when he realized that the educational system of his day was inadequate to meet the needs of the poor children of Seventeenth Century France. To provide a Christian and human education, De La Salle founded a religious community of men, the Brothers of the Christian Schools (Fratres Scholarum Christianarum), dedicated to the instruction of youth, especially the poor. De La Salle died on Good Friday, April 7, 1719. He was canonized a saint of the Catholic Church in 1900 and declared "Universal Patron of All Teachers" by his Holiness Pope Pius XII in 1950. The feast of St. Jean-Baptiste de La Salle is celebrated on the 15th of May by the worldwide Lasallian movement.