Collège-des-Frères (lit. 'The Brothers' College',, ), also known as Frères Bab el-Louk, is a French school in Bab al-Louq, a neighborhood in downtown Cairo. It is one of six Lasallian schools in Egypt of which four are located in Cairo and two in Alexandria.

History

On 3 June 1888 two brothers, Les Frères (French for "the brothers"), began their mission at St. Joseph school near St. Joseph church at Banque Misr St. in Downtown Cairo. The first class had two students.

Patron saint

St. Jean-Baptiste de la Salle

see: Jean-Baptiste de la Salle St. Jean-Baptiste de la Salle was born in Rheims, France on 30 April 1651. He was 29 years old when he realized that the educational system of his day was inadequate to meet the needs of the poor children of seventeenth century France. To provide a Christian and human education, De La Salle founded a religious community of men, the Brothers of the Christian Schools (Fratres Scholarum Christianarum), dedicated to the instruction of youth, especially the poor. De La Salle died on Good Friday, 7 April 1719. He was canonized a saint of the Catholic Church in 1900 and declared "Universal Patron of All Teachers" by Pope Pius XII in 1950. The feast of St. Jean-Baptiste de La Salle is celebrated on 15 May by the worldwide Lasallian movement.