History
The New Marash Armenian Evangelical School started in 1930 on the first Armenian street in the Bourj-Hammoud area, Beirut, Lebanon, inhabited by Armenians who came from Cilicia, Anatolia after the 1915 genocide. It had a kindergarten and two elementary classes. The first branch was in Ashrafieh, under the initiative of the New Marash Armenian Evangelical Church. Little by little the streets of Bourj-Hammoud were enlarged; people settled in the area and were eager to establish cultural and educational institutions.
The Armenian Evangelical Shamlian-Tatigian Secondary School developed through the years from this Armenian Evangelical school. In 1936 Reverend Garabed Hassessian increased the number of elementary classes to six. Subsequent to this, Reverend Aram Hadidian added several more classes. First, in 1950, the four intermediate grades of the second cycle. Then, in 1958, the three secondary grades of the third cycle were certified.
In 1964 Mr. and Mrs. J. Shamlian and their son Mr. G. Tatigian contributed to the school a new modern building and called it the Armenian Evangelical Shamlian-Tatigian Secondary School.
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