Today, at Ant Square in Konya's city center, there is a historical school called Konya High School. Konya High School, one of the oldest educational institutions in Turkey, was opened as Konya High School in a building that does not exist now, on the eastern foot of Alaeddin Hill, with the efforts of Konya Governor Sururi Pasha in 1889 during the reign of Sultan Abdulhamid. A year later, it was moved to the building where today's Coed Secondary School is located, and in 1934 to its current historical building.

Muzaffer Bey, the eminent architect who erected the Hürriyet Monument in Şişli, designed this historical Konya High School building. The last work of Architect Muzaffer is the His...