Burial Society Building Plans, Correspondence
View interactive document pageThese are archival documents from the Baghdadi Jewish community. They contain site plans for a vacant lot and correspondence with the Ḥevrah Ḳadishah (Burial Society) with the Engineering Administration of Baghdad. There are also estimate forms, directions for technical calculations, and blueprints of the site.
199 Presidency of the Jewish Community Baghdad Committee: Portfolio Number: ⟦100⟧ Record Number: Subject: Governorate: Sequence Number: District: Door Number: Sub-district: Property Type: Neighborhood and Street: Nature of Property: Land Registry Map Number: ⟦189/1/1⟧ Notes: 1/1/1949
Presidency of the Israelite Community Committee: List showing the contents of file no: For the property: Page | Nature of the paper and its contents | Number | Date | Notes General notes This list was organized by on / / 19
Offers To review the construction file Taken from the inspection form ⟦From the budget⟧ Institution Name: Hebra Qadisha Association Register Sequence Number: 262 Tapu Sequence: 26/226 Doors Number: B Kolat Property Type: Plot of Land Trustee's Name:
His Excellency the Director of the Land Registry of Baghdad District, Respected After greetings, I request to be provided with a copy of the property deed with sequence 326/26 Located in the Al-Kulat neighborhood, registered under number 128 and dated May 1935 And also a copy of the map of the aforementioned property. Please accept the highest expressions of thanks and respect President of the Hebra Kadisha Society
Confined between the courtyards of the Treasury and deprived of a road leading to it as the alignment of the arch has not been carried out
945 9 His Excellency the Director of Land Registry of Baghdad District, Respected After greetings, I request to be provided with a copy of the property registration record with sequence 326/26 Located in the Al-Kulat neighborhood, registered under number 128 and dated May 1930 And also a copy of the map of the aforementioned property. Please accept the highest expressions of thanks and respect. President of the Hebra Qadisha Society
The piece of land under discussion is confined between the financial plots and is deprived of an access road as the alignment of the archway has not been carried out
His Excellency the Mayor of the Capital Respectfully, After greetings, The piece of land located in the Al-Kulat neighborhood, numbered 226/26 is a pure property registered in the name of the Taufi ⟦...⟧ Association Khairandisha Al-Musawiya, and it is bordered from the southeast, southwest, and northwest by the open space of the stream belonging to the Ministry of Finance with sequence 227/226, and since this stream has become open spaces and the Ministry of Finance has partitioned it into several plots for the purpose of selling them, therefore the piece of land under discussion has become confined between the Finance open spaces and deprived of a road leading to it, as the alignment of the path has not been carried out
Number ⟦illegible⟧ 17/5/49 17/5/949 27/5/49 5/6/49 Al-Uzair in ⟦illegible⟧ 49 ⟦illegible⟧ mentioned that ⟦illegible⟧ ⟦illegible⟧ name addition ⟦illegible⟧ 202 According to the report attached The last hour In the Land Registry Department Matches the data About the incident Proven by That dinars without Only
Submitted on ⟦12 / 5 / 949⟧ ⟦7 / 5 / 949⟧ 27 / 5 / 49 5 / 6 / 49 ⟦24 / 5 / 49⟧ I, the undersigned, Rabbi Sassoon Khedhouri, the religious representative of the Israelite community, in addition to the aforementioned community, do hereby testify that I have waived the material taken for the students in the name of the legal quarter increase of the fils according to <del>⟦illegible⟧</del> ⟦252 / 52⟧ of the year 947 coinage, amounting to ⟦12 / 500⟧ twelve dinars and five hundred fils according to the undertaking certified by the Notary Public, and I pledge in the name of the community taken for the students in its capacity as the legal 25% increase in the Land Registry Department to the Municipality without compensation, provided that the community does not demand the Municipality for the purification fee for the remaining properties not located within the students' area in the name of the aforementioned, and if I break this I shall be obligated to pay an amount of five hundred dinars without the need for a formal notice, and for this purpose I have signed
There is until now this despite the importance of the area, therefore it required planning the straightening of this stream and making a road leading to these plans of ours, and to your excellencies is the matter, sir The Honorable President of the Qadisha Charity Association And I submit herewith a copy of the property deed with the map
242/20 Organized on 17/5/949 17/5/949 27/5/49 5/6/49 I, the undersigned, Rabbi Sassoon Khedhouri, the religious representative of 2/4/49 the Jewish community, in addition to the aforementioned community, that ⟦illegible⟧ that I have waived the area taken for the public road in excess of the legal quarter of the property named 242/20, amounting to ⟦illegible⟧ m2 the consumed [area] amounting to ⟦illegible⟧ square meters according to the approved design by the Secretariat of the Capital, and by this waiver of mine for the area taken for the road as an excess over the legal quarter in the Land Registry Department in the name of the Secretariat without compensation, provided that the Secretariat does not demand the specific improvement fee for the remaining land from the property located within the aforementioned general design, and if there are in my liability fees that must be paid in advance amounting to five hundred Dinars without the need for a formal notice, and I have noted and signed IRAQ 75 FILS Fils Rusafa Land Registry Given the status of this map, the area of the plot of the stream numbered 242/20 B is two Olins and seventy-seven square meters, thirty-one square meters ⟦illegible⟧ registered in the Land Registry Engineering Department, and upon inspections of ⟦illegible⟧ Baghdad 17
Map of Al-Jadwal Plot In Al-Tawrat District Baghdad Scale 1/200 N W E S Kuza Khana Haji Ali bin Abbas 246/21 246/22 246/20 Area Square Meters Ulk 77 2 - 177 181 246 IRAQ REVENUE 75 FILS Baghdad Municipality Director of Rusafa Tapu Based on the status of this map, the area of the Jadwal plot number 246/21 is Two ulks and seventy-seven square meters and thirty-one square decimeters and ⟦...⟧ According to the records of the Tapu Engineering Department and the Inspection Book in Baghdad page 14 8 17
⟦180⟧ ⟦1140⟧ ⟦174⟧ Method of calculating fee items Type of contents | Number | Dimensions: Length | Dimensions: Width | Dimensions: Height | Area: Square meters | Fee amount: Dinar | Fee amount: Fils | Total fee: Dinar | Total fee: Fils | | 15/00 | 10/00 | | 150 | | | | ⟦illegible⟧ ⟦illegible⟧ Total Area 150 Square meters Fee ⟦due⟧
262 Announcement Anyone who has a right or claims disposal of the vacant lot sequence 188 / 326 located in the Al-Kulat neighborhood, with an area of 256.68 square meters, bounded from the northeast by the house of Kayfa bint Al-Sayyid Hussein sequence 21 - 326 and ends at the Jewish cemetery sequence 20 - 326, the northwest by the Jewish cemetery sequence 142 - 326, the southwest by the vacant lot used as a public road, the southeast by the garage of Sheikh Abdul Qadir sequence 251, and this vacant lot surrounds the lot sequence 26 - 326 belonging to the Meir Qadisha Mosaic Society from three sides: the northeast, the northwest, and the southeast. He must contact the Baghdad Land Registry Department with the official documents he possesses within thirty days from the date of publishing this announcement. This lot will be registered anew in the name of the Financial Treasury of the Iraqi Government because it was not previously registered in the land registry records and because it is partitioned from the Amiri lot sequence 326. On behalf of the Director of Baghdad Land Registry 2-3 (275) ⟦illegible⟧ Documents 262
Mayor of the Capital ⟦line⟧ Recommendations of the Mayor of the Capital 1 - Approval to grant the permit 2 - Referral to the Council 3 - Other remarks ⟦line⟧ Chief Engineer In view of the completion of all transactions related to granting the permit and ⟦...⟧ the decision of the Secretariat Council (if any) paragraph Date ⟦line⟧ Referred to the engineer of the Second Technical Division To complete the transactions and grant the permit Or reject the request Mayor of the Capital ⟦line⟧ Chief Engineer 1 - Permits Clerk: - To collect the permit fee 2 - Technical Officer: - To organize the permit Engineer of the Second Technical Division ⟦line⟧ Engineer of the Second Technical Division 1 - We have collected the fee amounting to ⟦line⟧ Permit Clerk 2 - The permit No. ⟦line⟧ dated ⟦line⟧ has been organized Technical Officer of the Section ⟦line⟧ Note: - ⟦...⟧ on the paragraphs that do not apply to the request or the title by the division or the competent employee
20/5/46 972 9/5/1949 His Excellency the Mayor of the Capital, the Respected After greetings, We request the favor of providing us with a copy of the map of the street decided upon by the Secretariat Council, surrounding the cemetery of the late Sassoon Murad and the plot sequence 310 Kawlat. With our highest thanks and respect to Your Excellency; ⟦signature⟧ Head of the Community ⟦illegible⟧ 14
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⟦line⟧ 3/2/1925 ⟦illegible⟧ Sadiq Ar ⟦illegible⟧ ⟦illegible⟧ From the Kolat 27/6/47 What Salman Houri did 2960 Properties ⟦illegible⟧ Garage door ⟦illegible⟧ encroaches on the room Square meter 277.21 Surrounded by barbed wire Public road Constructed properties Sheikh Omar Street Public road
Mayor of the Capital 673 31 / 5 / 951 ⟦illegible⟧ we completed a day by hand We registered ⟦illegible⟧ Based on the desire of ⟦illegible⟧ Ghali ⟦illegible⟧ has been ⟦illegible⟧ and our language ⟦illegible⟧ ⟦illegible⟧ 47 ⟦illegible⟧ in the amount of one hundred ⟦illegible⟧ in the ledger ⟦illegible⟧ number 17 ⟦illegible⟧ to ⟦illegible⟧ and God is the Granter of success Accounting Department Mayor's Recommendations 1 - Approval of ⟦line⟧ 2 - Referral to the ⟦line⟧ 3 - Final remarks ⟦line⟧ In view of the completion ⟦line⟧ Date ⟦line⟧ Referred to the engineers ⟦line⟧ 1 - Clerk of the ⟦line⟧ 2 - The technical officer ⟦line⟧ Engineer of the section ⟦line⟧ 1 - We have fulfilled ⟦line⟧ 2 - I have organized the procedures ⟦line⟧ Technical officer of the department ⟦line⟧ Note: Paragraphs that do not apply to the request or the title shall be crossed out by the section or the competent employee
773 3/31/1951 AD ⟦line⟧ Iraqi Ports Administration Greetings, On the occasion of the desire of my maternal uncle's wife, Mr. ⟦...⟧, to visit Jerusalem, accompanied by her daughter ⟦...⟧ who is eighteen days old, please kindly facilitate their travel there ⟦...⟧ ⟦line⟧ and the matter ⟦...⟧ and many thanks to you in advance Sincerely, Constantine Al-Sayegh My Father
Required to open a street ⟦illegible⟧ Constructed properties Three shops for the neighbor on the vacant lot Shabaik properties Garage door for the neighbor on the vacant lot ⟦line⟧ Sequence 226 / 46 Square meters 277.31 Encroached upon ⟦line⟧ Sequence 226 Ajriyah Leased to Haji Jubair by the Mutasarrifate Fenced with barbed wire Public road Constructed properties Sheikh Omar Street Public road
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Date Signature of the Notification Officer Engineer of the Third Division - ⟦illegible⟧ Accounts Manager " " " Consumption Clerk " " " A copy of it to :-
The Israelite Community in Baghdad Serial Number 262 Record Name 1 Property Type | Courtyard | 11 Date of ⟦...⟧ 2 Neighborhood and Street | Kawlat | 12 The Authority ⟦...⟧ 3 Modern door number | ÷ | 13 Name of the trustee ⟦...⟧ 4 Type of property, i.e., is it private property or endowment | Private property | 14 Conditions of the trust ⟦...⟧ 5 Is it registered in the Tapu department or not? | Yes, registered | 15 The ⟦...⟧ entity 6 In whose name is it registered? | In the name of the Hebra Kadisha Mosaic Society | 16 Is the property ⟦...⟧ and ⟦...⟧ 7 Date of the Tapu deed | May 920 Permanent | 17 Is there any ⟦...⟧ or ownership or right of obligation, state ⟦...⟧ 8 Tapu serial number | 226/26 | 18 Method of use ⟦...⟧ 9 Value recorded in the Tapu deed | 420 Rupees | 19 The entity that ⟦...⟧ 10 Endowment number | / | 20 Is there a dispute Remarks: ⟦line⟧