Prime Minister of Turkey visited Grand Mufti’s Office

Prime Minister of the Republic of Turkey Prof. Ahmet Davutoğlu visited Grand Mufti’s Office. He was on an official working visit in the country. After his meetings with the President Rosen Plevneliev and the Prime Minister Boyko Borisov the Turkish Prime Minister met with the Grand Mufti Dr. Mustafa Hadzhi.

“Thank you for the honor. You are the first Prime Minister who visit the institution in it’s a century long tradition”, said the Grand Mufti Dr. Mustafa Hadzhi. He presented the priorities and the problems of Grand Mufti’s Office and expressed special thanks for the good partnership and cooperation with the Presidency of the Religious Affairs in the Republic of Turkey. Between the two institutions is established a long-term cooperation in the field of the religious affairs.

“Grand Mufti’s Office is a guarantee for the ethnical and the religious peace in Bulgaria. It is a factor which plays an important role for preventing the ethno-religious confrontation which we witnessed in the other Balkan countries”, said the Prime-Minister of the Republic of Turkey Ahmet Davutoğlu. He was informed about the course of the repair and construction activities of the cult and religious architectural monuments from Ottoman times, and namely the capital’s mosque “Kadi Seyfullah Efendi”, the mosque in Shumen “Sherif Halil Pasha”, the mosque in Plovdiv “Hyudavendigyar” and the mosque in Razgrad “Ibrahim Pasha”.

According to the Prime-Minister Davutoğlu the Bulgarian churches in Turkey and the Ottoman mosques in Bulgaria are cultural and historical monuments from our common past which we must to preserve.

The Grand Mufti gave his guest a reproduction of the painting of Master Zlatyo Boyadzhiev “Imaret Mosque”, which depicts the ritual Sadaqah in Plovdiv from the beginning of the past century, and received from his guest a vase “Shifala” with incrusted Qur’anic verses from the limited collection of historical filigreed glass.