The Convent of Jesus Mary, Murree is a girls school located in Murree, Punjab, Pakistan. It was founded in 1876, by a French woman named

Claudine Thévenet Claudine Thévenet, RJM (30 March 1774 – 3 February 1837), religious name Marie of Saint Ignatius, was a French Catholic nun and the founder of the Religious of Jesus and Mary. Thévenet witnessed the horrors of the French Revolution – ...

, foundress of the Religious of Jesus Mary, whose sole purpose for the school was to train young ladies so that they make good housewives and women in life. Though this is a convent school yet Islamic studies are studies here as well.

History

The school operated as a

boarding school A boarding school is a school where pupils live within premises while being given formal instruction. The word "boarding" is used in the sense of "room and board", i.e. lodging and meals. As they have existed for many centuries, and now exten ...

from its establishment until 2007. On February 15, 2012, the President of Pakistan approved conferment of Sitara Quaid-e-Azam on Sister

John Berchmans Conway John Berchmans Conway, R.J.M. (born Bernadette Conway 1929 – 21 December 2022), usually known as Sister Berchmans, was an Irish Roman Catholic religious sister and teacher who worked in Pakistan for 60 years. In 2012 she was decorated by th ...

, a former teacher of the school, for her services towards education and promoting interfaith harmony in Pakistan.

Notable alumni

Benazir Bhutto Benazir Bhutto ( ur, بینظیر بُھٹو; sd, بينظير ڀُٽو; Urdu ; 21 June 1953 – 27 December 2007) was a Pakistani politician who served as the 11th and 13th prime minister of Pakistan from 1988 to 1990 and again from 1993 t ...

* Tehmina Durrani, author of ''My Feudal Lord''Dawn 5 May 2013
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Syeda Abida Hussain Syeda Abida Hussain–Imam ( b. 1948) is a Pakistani conservative politician, diplomat, and socialite on the platform of the Pakistan Muslim League (N). Born into a feudal family in Pakistan, she served as the Pakistan Ambassador to the ...

* Rubina Khanum, elder sister of Imran Khan

References

External links

OFFICIAL ALUMNI CJM MURREE website

Sonias Alumni pages blog
Catholic elementary and primary schools in Pakistan Schools in Murree Catholic secondary schools in Pakistan Girls' schools in Pakistan 1876 establishments in British India Educational institutions established in 1876 {{Pakistan-school-stub