Gajret was the Muslim society for helping and promotion of students from middle and high schools in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Austro-Hungarian Monarchy.

The first assembly of “Gajret” was held on 20 Febrauray 1903, whose founder were Safvet Beg Bašagić and Edhem Mulabdić, who also, were founders of the magazine “Behar”. Gajret stopped working in 1941 and in 1945 fits into “Preporod” newly established Muslim society.

The “Preporod” Building (former known as the “Gajret” Building) located on the “Branilaca Sarajeva” Street, as well as the building of the Gajret Boarding School (today the Teaching Academy) on the “Obala Kulina Bana” Street was designed in 1936 by the architect Dušan Smiljanić, in a modern European style.

Beside the administrative premises, the “Preporod” Building has two locations on the ground floor facing the street currently used for book shops, as well as two floors with flats to rent out, which served as an important source of income to “Preporod” before it was abolished in 1945.

Although “Preporod” (which means “Renaissance”) has been re-established, neither these premises, nor the building of the boarding school at the Obala Kulina Bana address, have yet been returned to their ownership.

The strip of land between the above-mentioned streets, on which those buildings were built, as well as the court yard between them, were an endowment/bequest of Imsirije sisters, with a testament that this property should be used for the construction of cultural and educational institutions, and these instructions were respected.

However, the present government has not acknowledged or granted the request for the property of the boarding school and the rental flats to be returned, thereby disregarding the terms of this endowment in perpetuity and denying this income from rental to its rightful owners. With capitalization of these flats, the ultimate violation of this testament will be accomplished.