although islam does not sentence all the verdicts of mosques on temples, in many cases the temples of people of the book is respected as mosques and muslim praying in mosques is acceptable. the quran recommendation on honors and rituals of god including the temples of people of the book is due to hadiths and the shrines of the prophets and imams are also included. there are some evidences showi...

The field study of Sinjar city shows that it includes two traditional heritage mosques , the first is Great Mosque, located in Saray neighborhood center city, which made same distance to all sides fact very easy worshipers access easily It considered second oldest mosque after was built Atabic era (559 AH 1181 AD), And there nothing left except its minaret known as Sinjar, during reign Ottoman ...

this study aimed to investigate the spatial perception and evaluation of the place-based affordance of mosques in tehran. reviewing the literature and applying gibson`s affordance and canter`s place theory, the new model called place-based affordance is proposed. in this model, each location contains two potential types of symbolic and behavioural affordance. accordingly, throughout history, be...

The Islamic world has a rich artistic tradition of creating highly geometric and symmetric ornamentation. Over the centuries, the process of creating Islamic tilings was refined from the 15th Century ornamentation in the Alhambra Palace in Granada, Spain to the exquisite tilings, which are seen in mosques, mausoleums and minarets throughout the world today. The contemporary mathematics of group...

Tiling Theory studies how one might cover the plane with various shapes. Medieval Islamic artisans developed intricate geometric tilings to decorate their mosques, mausoleums, and shrines. Some of these patterns, called girih tilings, first appeared in the 12 Century AD. Recent investigations show these medieval tilings contain symmetries similar to those found in aperiodic Penrose tilings firs...