page_title: Gazi Eğitim Enstitüsü
section_title: Campus
hierarchical_section_title: Gazi Eğitim Enstitüsü / Campus
caption_attribution_description: English: A view of the Gazi University Beşevler campus
context_page_description: Gazi Eğitim Enstitüsü was a teacher's college in Ankara, Turkey. Established in 1927, it was incorporated in the Gazi University as the Gazi Faculty of Education in 1982.
context_section_description: At its foundation, the institution was temporarily housed in the building of closed religious orders in Konya because there was no suitable building in Ankara. The following year, it moved into the recently completed building of the Ministry of National Education in Ankara. One year later in 1928, the Ministry of National Education was moved to the evacuated building of Ankara Male Teacher's School of Primary Education. Its original new building was assigned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to host the King of Afghanistan Amanullah Khan (reigned 1926–1929) with his spouse during his state visit to Turkey as the guest of Mustafa Kemal ATatürk. The Middle Teacher's School (Turkish: Orta Öğretmen Okulu), as the institution was called at that time, was moved to the insufficient building of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The building of "Child Protection Corporation" (Turkish: Çocuk Esirgeme Kurumu) was then used as a dormitory for the boarding students.
  With the initiative of Minister of National Education Mustafa Necati (in office 1925–1929), a building was built on a land covering 360 daa (430,000 sq yd) purchased from the Atatürk Forest Farm to a symbolic price. The building was designed by the architect, Mimar Kemaleddin (1870–1927), as his latest work. It was designed in the style of First national architectural movement, which combines classical elements of Ottoman and Seljuk architecture in the construction of modern buildings. At the groundbreaking ceremony, it was decided that the name of the institution to be prefixed with "Gazi" after the inauguration of the building. Completed in two and half years, the construction cost 1.746 million Turkish lira. As a comparison, the budget of the Ministry of National Education was about 8–10 million Turkish lira at that time.  The building was designed to house 500 boarding students. The campus was located around 4 km (2.5 mi) far from the city center Ulus in an arid landscape. The highly-needed landscaping was carried out by planting of vegetation after drilling of artesian aquifers. In later years, buildings for physical education (1932–36) and music (1937–38) were added. So the gym, designed by Austrian-Swiss architect Ernst Arnold Egli (1893–1974) and opened in 1930. After 1960, buildings, which spoiled the characteristics of the main building's architecture, were added with American aid.
  In 1982, the buildings at the campus were passed over to the newly-established Gazi University. The main building became the Rectorate of the university.
caption: Detail from the Gazi Eğitim Enstitüsü building, today the Rectorate of Gazi University.
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