Swiss-Muslim families have vowed to create their own private schools to segregate boys from girls after a European court ruling made mixed-gender swimming lessons compulsory.

Aziz Osmanoglu took a case to the European Court of Human Rights after Swiss authorities insisted his young daughters should participate in mixed swimming lessons.

School authorities claimed the swimming classes were vital to the children's 'successful integration into Swiss society as part of the 'full curriculum'.

Aziz Osmanoglu, right has vowed to set up his own Islamic school after the European Court of Human Rights ruled that Swiss Authorities were correct to order his daughter to learn to swim

Osmanoglu, complained his religion does not allow girls to learn to swim along with boys

Swiss authorities said the children would be permitted to wear burkinis during the lessons

After exhausting the Swiss legal process, Osmanoglu brought his case to the ECHR who upheld the original decision.

Serhad Karatekin, media representative of the Muslim Commission in the city of Basel, said: 'We know that individual clubs have set themselves the goal of opening up a Muslim private school now.'

Osmanoglu is still refusing to send his two daughters to mixed swimming lessons, a move that has been supported by the Basel Muslim Commission.

Johannes Czwalina, a theologian and business consultant from Basel, said he would welcome a Muslim private school and would do all he can to help one open.

Czwalina gained national fame in Switzerland after he paid the legal bills of numerous Muslims in recent years.

The EHCR admitted that while the Osmanoglu family's right to religious freedom was being interfered with during the planned lesson, this breach did not amount to a violation

He felt it was 'discriminatory' that Muslims were being fined when they did not send their children to the swimming lessons and offered to pay for them.

Basel authorities fined Osmanoglu £1,140 in July 2010, which triggered the long-running legal battle.

Czwalina said that nobody talks about ultra-religious Jewish students who would also refuse to take part in mixed swimming classes.

He said: 'If the Jewish students were not under the protection of their own school, there would be more Jewish families affected by fines in Basel than Muslims.'

While the ECHR did say that religious freedoms were being interfered with in the lessons, judges said unanimously that the interference did not amount to a violation.

Muslim students will now have to take part in mixed-gender swimming lessons, after Switzerland won a court case earlier this month.

The ECHR said in a statement that the refusal to exempt girls from swimming lessons 'had been an interference with the applicants' right to their freedom of religion'.

The law involved with the right for freedom of religion, however, was made 'to protect foreign pupils from any form of social exclusion,' the ECHR said in a statement.

The court said that schools are important for social integration.

Exemptions, the ECHR said, are 'justified only in very exceptional circumstances'.

'Accordingly, the children's interest in a full education, thus facilitating their successful social integration according to local customs and mores, prevailed over the parents' wish to have their children exempted from mixed swimming lessons,' the court said.

The court said that 'very flexible arrangements' have been offered, including allowing the girls to use a girls-only changing room and letting them wear burkinis during lessons instead of traditional swimwear.

Education officials said that exemptions from swimming lessons were only available to girls who had reached puberty.

The Swiss nationals' daughters had not reached puberty when their parents kept them from swimming lessons.

In 2012, Switzerland's highest court in Lausanne ruled that the obligation to attend mixed-gender swimming lessons was not a violation on religious freedom.