study of the role of mosque in management of community in mashhad city

salient development of urbanization, with development of cities in terms of population and area and appearance of megalopolises and metropolises have directed macro view and city – scale to fundamental cells or urban neighborhoods to this level in order the main objective of planning or improving of quality of life of residents be tried. in this new pattern, micro-oriented approach base on social engineering to replace the macro approach and be started in that solve urban problems of smallest unit, the neighborhood that in fact, units are, can control their and admitted to the partnership. in the islamic community, there are institutions for occurrence of idea of social engineering and partnership that thousand and four hundred years of history are. mosques are the most important presence of masses in every age, with various roles cultural, scientific, moral, religious, social, political, economic, and... with creation context to voluntary collective actions can have effective role in community development. this study with survey multiple activities of mosque at a neighborhood in the eight general axis (the mosque's role in enriching leisure, create a cultural space, provide financial assistance, religious - cultural meetings and ceremonies, increase of participation of residents, provide counseling assistances, assessment of priority issues, problems and needs of the community, promote personal and social security through increase of internal and external monitoring) and survey of embrace of people of activities and programs of mosque, to analyze the role of the mosque as the most extensive network of social learning and its role in community development deals in city of mashhad. to achieve the objectives questionnaires replenishment to a sample size equal to 385 from citizens and 10 experts related to the topic has been proceeded. the methodology has been descriptive- analytical. the results of the research show that, mosques own effective programs in order community development. on the other hand, the residents embrace its activities and programs. also mosques to achieve its real position, in order to enhance effectiveness in the community development, requires proper planning and coordinated management, by all institutions and organizations that are somehow associated with mosque. in the final section of this research recommendations and guidelines in this connection, is presented.