Özet:

The American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions), which was founded in 1810 in the United States and began to send missionaries to the Ottoman territory in 1820, has been involved in education, health and religious activities in this region. In addition to the schools opened for men as well as the missionaries care about the education of the girls, especially for the education of the Armenian women, they opened girls schools in many centers, including Adana, Urfa, Bitlis, Maraş, Erzurum, Bursa and Antep. Antep is one of the most active places of the evangelist community in the Anatolian geography. The Antep Girls’ Seminary (Aintab Girls’ Seminary), which was opened in 1859 to educate Armenian girls in Antep, continued its educational activities until its closure in 1917. In this study, the 57-year school’s educational process, the mission and the region’s impact were tried to be studied. The study is based on the American Board’s periodic publications, microfilm records, mission catalogues, Ottoman archive documents and research works.

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