Abstract:

The 19th century covered a period of intense missionary activity in the Ottoman Empire. In this intensity, the reforms that followed the declaration of the Tanzimat (1839) and the Islahat edicts (1856) and the concessions granted to foreign states had a great impact. During the century, the Ottoman Empire built new schools to train educated people in all areas, while foreign states also had the right to open educational institutions on Ottoman territory. For this reason, states such as America, France, England, Germany and Italy opened many schools in the Ottoman geography with various privileges they obtained and carried out missionary activities through these schools. One of these states, France, had the opportunity to start early missionary studies and schooling activities in the Ottoman Empire thanks to the capitulations it had previously obtained. Various missionary groups sent by France have accelerated schooling activities in many parts of Istanbul and Anatolia. One of these educational institutions located in Kırıkhan district of Hatay. The school, which was opened with the cooperation of Jesuit and Lazarist missionaries and known as Kırıkhan Seminary School, sets a different example with its plan establishment and architectural features among French educational institutions. The unification of the school and the church under a single structure is important in terms of separating Kırıkhan Seminary School from other French schools and considering it as a unique example. In addition, the school has its own characteristics with its facade formation and different window layout. It is understood that the building, which is mostly the subject of studies in the field of history, has not been evaluated comprehensively with the discipline of art and architectural history. In this study, the school has been introduced with its architectural features and examined in detail within the framework of the art history discipline.