Said Pasha Mosque, Ruse

Overview

Said Pasha Mosque, cultural monument. It is located in the courtyard of the Islamic Theological Seminary, built by Said Pasha as a girls' school. Built in the Levantine Baroque style in 1876, before it was closed, it kept hair from the beard of the Prophet Muhammad, which was worn on the feast of Sakalli. The whole building was cracked when a leaking water pipe undermined the intersection of Skobelev Blvd. and Nikolaevska St. The renovation was funded by the Chief Mufti. It has made the necessary arrangements with the National Institute of Cultural Monuments. The building is strengthened by building micropiles at a depth of 10.5 meters below the load-bearing walls. These are a type of concrete columns to prevent 'settling'. According to the builder, a new horizontal plan is being made and the roof will be repaired. The mosque was restored to its original appearance by plastering with lime-cement plaster. Years ago, the failed houses and the infrastructure in the section were repaired with the allocated 600,000 levs. under the Geoprotection program by the Ministry of Regional Development and Public Works. The municipality also received BGN 159,000 for the technical project. A little background on the history of the Said Pasha Mosque according to the best researcher of the Ottoman heritage in Ruse - Mrs. Teodora Bakardzhieva - In 1923 a letter of request was sent to the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Religions in connection with the settlement of the endowment "Mirza Said Pasha" by the Ruse lawyer Petar Karchev, attorney of Nejdet Khanum Hayredinova, legal successor of the late Said Pasha. As such, the letter points out, under its management and disposal should be all real estate, listed in detail in a special waqfname, constituting the waqf "Mirza Said Pasha", while preserving the will of the late founder regarding the support of religious and educational institutions. and faces. The documents giving grounds for the claims of the Saidpasha's heiress are also selected: * Constituent letter-waqf of the late Mirza Said Pasha, which lists the properties from which he established the waqf, namely about 35 shops, 1 garden along the Danube, 1 melon near the latter and others. properties in Tutrakan, Shumen and Novi Pazar. The waqfname states that the income from these properties should be given in a certain amount to various persons listed by name, heads of either religious or educational institutions. It is pointed out that the explicit will of Said Pasha is that these properties be left to his family and the children of their children, in general to his generation, for whose material security this waqf was created. * Suran irade, issued in favor of Hayredin Bey, father of Nejdet Khanum, legal successor of Saeed Pasha, who has all the rights to manage the real estate left by the latter waqf according to the specially issued ilam. * The third document, this is the ilam, issued to the late Hayredin Bey by the Directorate of the Chief Eucalyptus in Constantinople. According to this document, the properties representing the waqf "Mirza Said Pasha" should be entrusted to the care and management of Hayredin Bey, his children, the children of his children, etc. This decree of the Chief Evkav, an institution that interprets the spirit and text of Sharia with the widest competence and has sovereign rights in resolving all waqf issues, prevents any objections of the Turkish religious communities in Bulgaria. * The Ruse Muslim religious community has been accused of seizing the properties of the Mirza Said Pasha waqf. As a document certifying such a thing is a protocol of the municipality in question from 1905, which states that the waqf properties "Mirza Said Pasha" were left without the mute and the legal successor of the same did not appear after Nurie Khanum and thus they remain under the management of the Ruse Muslim religious community temporarily until such a successor appears. Thus, in 1921, Hayredin Bey, provided with all the necessary documents for this purpose, appeared before the above-mentioned municipality, but was refused to hand over the management and possession of the property, and for 3-4 months he was granted a miserable amount. Finally, the lawyer asked the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Denominations to urgently consider the present application and resolve the issue, as his attorney, Nejdet Khanum, was ill, living in a damp and extremely unhygienic brothel, in complete misery and procrastinating. worsened her extremely shaky health. Most likely, procrastinating the issue or not resolving it in favor of the heiress of the late Said Pasha is beneficial for the Ruse Muslim Board of Trustees, as it is in danger of losing a lucrative waqf. He is also accused of admitting irregularities in keeping the accounts of the waqf and others.