page_title: Instituto Nacional Mejía
section_title: Previous locations
hierarchical_section_title: Instituto Nacional Mejía / History / Previous locations
caption_attribution_description: English: Historic renovations in the Historic Center of Quito - World Heritage Site by UNESCO
context_page_description: Instituto Nacional Mejía is a public secondary educational institution of Quito. It was founded on June 1, 1897 by Eloy Alfaro Delgado, then president of Ecuador.
context_section_description: The Instituto Nacional Mejía was originally located at the north side of the Metropolitan Cultural Centre and was later moved to an old building informally known as the "antiguo Beaterio", Spanish for "old nunnery", (which had formerly served for various purposes, from religious retreat to Catholic girls school), at the intersection of the streets José Joaquín de Olmedo and Sebastián de Benalcázar. Both buildings were located at the heart of Quito's Old Town ("Centro Histórico"). In 1922, the high school administration commissioned a new, bigger building, to the German architect Wilhelm Spahr and the local architect Pedro Aulestia Saá, which was to be located at the, back then, northern edge of the city. Thus, the high school would remain at the antiguo Beaterio building only up until the early 1930s. The construction of a new building is also to be taken against the backdrop of the centenary celebrations for the Battle of Pichincha (May 24, 1822), which is conventionally seen as securing the separation of the territories of the then Real Audiencia of Quito from the Spanish Empire, an important antecedent for the construction of Ecuador as a republican nation-state.
caption: Scaffolding on the south side of the antiguo Beaterio building, where the Instituto Nacional Mejía was located in the early 20th century.
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