Ionideios Model High School of Piraeus
Model School (Protypo) located in downtown Piraeus
Ionideios (or Ionidios) School of Piraeus (Greek: Ιωνίδειος Σχολή Πειραιά [ionˈiðios sxoˈli pireˈa]) is a school in Piraeus, Greece. It was founded in 1847, and it was named after the Greek national benefactor Constantine Ionides (Greek: Κωνσταντίνος Ιωνίδης), father of Alexander Constantine Ionides.
History
Ionideios was established in 1847. However, its history began in 1844, when Petros Omiridis Skylitsis, the Mayor of Piraeus at the time, addressed Konstantinos Ionidis by letter and asked for help in setting up schools in Piraeus. In his reply to the mayor, Constantinos Ionides stated that he would provide 30,000 drachmas, an amount of great importance at the time, provided that the Municipality of Piraeus would purchase the land and pay for the future cost of the school in order to function. In 1845, the City Council accepted these terms together with some others that the donor had set.
Two years later, in 1847 and on the mayoralty of Dimitrios Theocharis, the construction of the school began and on 21 May of the same year while the donor provided 10,000 drachmas more for the needs of the school and the creation of a library. In 1862, the establishment of the Gymnasium was signed by the then Minister of Education. Until 1914, the school housed the only Gymnasium in Piraeus. This year, with the foundation of the Second Gymnasium in the city of Piraeus, Ionides renamed the school to First Gymnasium.
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