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 | | Lazarist missionaries began their educational work in the 1840s in Western Azerbaijan and gradually extended their activities to Tabr^z, Isfahan, and Tehran in the latter half of the 19th and early 20th centuries. |
 | | The curriculum for Lazarist secondary schools for boys was four years, with courses in ancient and modern Assyrian, Persian, French, arithmetic, geography, church history, philosophy, theology, and hymns. |
 | | In 1863 a Lazarist school for boys and a Saint Vincent de Paul school for girls were opened in Tabr^z, followed two years later by another school for girls run by the Daughters of Charity. |
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