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IJA 2787

Burial Society Building Plans, Correspondence

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Description

These 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.

Metadata

Archive Reference
IJA 2787
Item Number
9601
Date
Approx. January 1, 1921 to December 31, 1930
Languages
Arabic
Keywords
Financial, Illustration, Correspondence, Baghdadi Jewish Community, Ḥevrah Ḳadishah, Map, President of the Jewish Community, Annotation, Burial Society, Revenue Stamp, Handwritten, Ink Stamp, Form, File Folder, Registration, Property, Contract, Typed

AI English Translation, Pages 26-50

Archival unit 26

The Israelite Community in Baghdad
Serial Number 262
Immovable Property Register
Name of the entity to which the property belongs or the endowment beneficiary: Hebra Qadisha Association
1 Property Type | Empty Plot | 11 Date of Endowment Deed | /
2 Neighborhood and Street | Kawlat | 12 Authority that issued the endowment | /
3 Modern Door Number | - | 13 Name of current trustee and method of appointment | /
4 Type of ownership (sole ownership or endowment) | Sole ownership | 14 Terms of trusteeship | /
5 Is it registered in the Land Registry (Tabu) or not? | Yes, registered | 15 Entity for which the property is endowed | /
6 In whose name is it registered? | In the name of the Mosaic Hebra Qadisha Association | 16 Is the property registered under a pseudonym and how? | /
7 Date of the Land Registry (Tabu) deed | May 920 Permanent | 17 Is there any other document regarding this property, its ownership, or the right of disposal? If so, state its nature, date, and number | /
8 Land Registry (Tabu) serial number | 226/26 | 18 How is it currently used? | Unoccupied (vacant plot)
9 Value recorded in the Land Registry (Tabu) deed | 240 Rupees | 19 Entity to which revenues are spent | /
10 Endowment Number | / | 20 Is there any dispute regarding it? | /
Notes:-

Archival unit 27

Sequence Number: 172
District: Kolat
Type: Vacant Land
Equipment Number: 1/

Archival unit 28

Land Registry Engineering Department, Baghdad Province
Map Number ( 5610 )
North
W — E
S
Map of an empty plot
Al-Koolat Quarter
Baghdad
Scale
1/200
256/20
Koza Khana of Haji Ali bin Ismail
259/9
26.00
10.80
256/26
25.00
11.00
256
Area | Square Decimeters | Square Meters | Olak
 | 21 | 77 | 2
Land Registry Directorate, Baghdad Province
( Number ⟦...⟧ )
18/12/28
Scale 1/200
0 5 10 15
In view of the status of this map, the area of the empty plot with sequence 256/26 equals
two Olaks, seventy-seven meters, and thirty-one square decimeters, nothing else
And it was drawn in the Land Registry Engineering Department from the inspection book, Volume 41, Page ⟦illegible⟧
The Draftsman 12/25 The Engineer Inspection Officer The Head of Engineering The Director of Land Registry Engineering
This copy was reproduced on ⟦...⟧ / 1949 and signed by the Secretary of the Community
Notes
On 18 / 5 / 1949
Presidency of the Jewish Community in Baghdad

Archival unit 29

Property of the Jewish community in Al-Jannah year 1941
(0.125) Before segregation
To the North
N
E
W
The committee has begun fixing the case
Wadrad
81.00
25.00
Wadrad
Section
1815
Remaining area
77 / 2
12
Wadrad
Property of the Jewish community in Al-Jannah
(In format)
No. 81 / 18
Map
0 5 10 15 20 25 30
The Wadrad is located with an area of approximately eight thousand one hundred square meters bounded
by its boundaries shown above in the numbered plot 1815 / 12
named as ⟦illegible⟧ in the Al-Jannah neighborhood in Baghdad registered in the department of
(In format)
Architect | Surveying Engineer | Drafter
The applicant was charged in the year 1941 and it was entered in the map of ⟦illegible⟧