This exquisitely designed school building on Generala Milojka Lešjanina Street, partially screened by the Mosque as one of the rare preserved monuments from the time of the Turkish rule, was built in 1959.

The designer is the architect Ivan Antić, one of the most significant Serbian architects in the post-WWII period, a professor of the Faculty of Architecture in Belgrade, and a member of the SANU academy of science.

The building has four semi-levels, with classrooms on both sides of the longer façade s, four entrances to the single hall, four staircases (for the better internal flow of the students) and atriums in its central part. Three classrooms on the street side form the dynamic contour of the building with their prominent volumes, as a contrast to the peaceful horizontal colonnade of the ground level, clad in stone. In the period of the late Moderne architecture, great attention was paid to the good functional design of public buildings, which the contribution of the principle of free-layout design and space connection. The building is a successful blend of contemporary and traditional architecture.

The first vocational schools in Niš date back to 1883 when the “Ženska radenička škola” (or women workers’ school) was founded. In 1959, the center for home economics studies opened there, and today the building houses the vocational school for food processing–chemical workers.