The beginning of the second Pahlavi era was accompanied by the rise to power of a generation of academic and technocrat architects of the first Pahlavi period, which in the 1960s led to maximize attention to modernist architecture. Modernism was supported at the cultural level of society in a way that led to the design and construction of Modern mosques such as the al-Javad Mosque and the Unive...

Quranic inscriptions are the inseparable elements of mosque ornaments, promoting the Islamic culture and reflecting the socio-political conditions of the given era. Due to its importance and vastness together with several structural periods and the volume of decorations, Jameh Mosque of Isfahan is one of the structures containing most of the historical religious inscriptions related to Iranian ...

Abul-Hasan Gaffari, Sani ol-Molk, was a pioneer iconographer, book illustrator and painter in Qajar Period who created many works in portraiture, book illustration and lithography. His works had deeply influence the Iranian visual arts. He was the first art student sent to Italy to study the works of the Italian masters. After return, Sani ol-Molk exhibited his sketches to his pupils, at a coll...

In Islamic cities, mosques have a distinct place. The mosque has long been considered as an essential element of human society in many ways. This study aims to introduce some of the most successful attitudes of spatial communication in today’s mosque architecture scale by examining the architecture of traditional mosques. In space syntax approach, using the three indices of “connectivity”, “int...

Mosque is one of the most important Muslims' buildings and one of the best expressions of Islamic community (Ummah). In spite of considerable architectural history of the mosque in Islam and Iran, it seems that there are significant questions about the ideal mosque in Islam. For example "open space" (or courtyard), regarding its undeniable importance according to Islamic tradition (Sirrah & Sun...

Mosque, as one of the most prominent buildings of Islamic architecture has been influenced by constant subsystems and temporal as well as spatial variables and has passed its trend of formation and evolution or decline. As the architecture of Shiraz’s mosques finds their way at the very preliminary sanctuary pattern, different from many Iranian mosques, the paper tries to investigate the order ...

 Incontrovertibly, the sense of hearing is one of the five most substantial human senses. In fact, the human ear receives sound and transmits to the human brain by the auditory organs. Hence, sound can be considered as one of the key tools of human communication with each other and the environment around them. Since acoustic has a profound impact on the body, soul, and the performance of human ...