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| Dominican Convent High School | |
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| Coordinates | 17°49′21″S 31°03′07″E / 17.8224°S 31.0519°E |
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| Type | Independent high school |
| Motto | Veritas (Latin: Truth) |
| Denomination | Catholic |
| Founded | 18 October 1892 |
| Founder | Mother Patrick Cosgrove |
| Sister school | St. George's College |
| Gender | Girls |
| Website | www |
Dominican Convent High School (commonly referred to as Convent) is a private Catholic day school for girls in Harare, Zimbabwe. One of the oldest established schools in Zimbabwe, Dominican Convent was founded in 1892 by Mother Patrick Cosgrave, an Irish nun, with 10 pupils.
The school was co-educational, but after ten years, a separate school, Hartmann House, was established for boys.
Mother Patrick founded the Dominican Convent in Harare in 1892. She also started the first hospital in what was then Southern Rhodesia. There is a museum commemorating her in the grounds of the Mukwati Building on Fourth Street in Harare, in what was the original hospital's mortuary.[1]
- ^ See entry for Cosgrave, Mary Anne (Patrick) in Dictionary of Irish Biography at https://dib.cambridge.org/viewReadPage.do;jsessionid=35441D39F066BB2681CC302C96E1075B?articleId=a2073 accessed 21 5 2019.