Murree Christian School
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Murree Christian School is a small boarding school
located at over 7000 ft. elevation in the foothills of the Himalayan mountains
in Pakistan
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It was founded in 1956 to educate the children of missionaries
in Pakistan and is located near the tiny crossroads town of Jhika Gali
which is in the Murree hills of Rawalpindi District
, Punjab
province. The school had been functioning without notoriety until the 5th of August 2002 when gunmen attacked the school killing six people, none of whom were students or expatriates the school has since returned to normalcy with increased security. Since the late 1970s students are no longer all from missionary families; some are from expatriate workers of consulates and embassies in Islamabad or other international companies. A few are from the small Pakistani Christian community. Courses are taught in English, with supplementary classes for European and Asian native-language speakers.
The main high school building, made of stone, is former Garrison Church, an Anglican congregation for soldiers in training in the hill station of Murrree. Several other buildings are used as elementary classrooms and hostels (boarding dorms). Boys above grade 6 are housed at a building which was formerly Sandes Soldiers Home, for convalescent soldiers of the British Indian Army.
Boarding school
A boarding school is a school where some or all pupils study and live during the school year with their fellow students and possibly teachers and/or administrators. The word 'boarding' is used in the sense of "bed and board," i.e., lodging and meals...
located at over 7000 ft. elevation in the foothills of the Himalayan mountains
Himalayas
The Himalaya Range or Himalaya Mountains Sanskrit: Devanagari: हिमालय, literally "abode of snow"), usually called the Himalayas or Himalaya for short, is a mountain range in Asia, separating the Indian subcontinent from the Tibetan Plateau...
in Pakistan
Pakistan
Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...
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It was founded in 1956 to educate the children of missionaries
Missionary
A missionary is a member of a religious group sent into an area to do evangelism or ministries of service, such as education, literacy, social justice, health care and economic development. The word "mission" originates from 1598 when the Jesuits sent members abroad, derived from the Latin...
in Pakistan and is located near the tiny crossroads town of Jhika Gali
Jhika Gali
Jhika Gali - is a town in Murree tehsil, Rawalpindi District, Punjab, Pakistan. It is located on the Rawalpindi to Murree road and contains many boarding schools...
which is in the Murree hills of Rawalpindi District
Rawalpindi District
Rawalpindi is a district of Pakistan in the north of the Punjab province which contains the city of Rawalpindi. The district has an area of . It was part of Rawalpindi Division, until the year 2000 when the division was abolished...
, Punjab
Punjab (Pakistan)
Punjab is the most populous province of Pakistan, with approximately 45% of the country's total population. Forming most of the Punjab region, the province is bordered by Kashmir to the north-east, the Indian states of Punjab and Rajasthan to the east, the Pakistani province of Sindh to the...
province. The school had been functioning without notoriety until the 5th of August 2002 when gunmen attacked the school killing six people, none of whom were students or expatriates the school has since returned to normalcy with increased security. Since the late 1970s students are no longer all from missionary families; some are from expatriate workers of consulates and embassies in Islamabad or other international companies. A few are from the small Pakistani Christian community. Courses are taught in English, with supplementary classes for European and Asian native-language speakers.
The main high school building, made of stone, is former Garrison Church, an Anglican congregation for soldiers in training in the hill station of Murrree. Several other buildings are used as elementary classrooms and hostels (boarding dorms). Boys above grade 6 are housed at a building which was formerly Sandes Soldiers Home, for convalescent soldiers of the British Indian Army.