Abbas I, like many other Iranian kings, devoted special attention to the Jame Mosques. Following Isfahan’s election as his capital, he was trying to renovate the Bazaar and the old mosque, which was faced by the opposition of landowners at the time. Then he decided to build the Naghsh-e Jahan square and set up the Jame Abbasi as a new Jame Mosque in the city. In this paper, the two main compone...

This research has endeavored to investigate popular locations in the Isfahan’s Jame mosque (Atiq) for different groups of users, discover the meaning that they received and finally identify the architectural features which effect on stops and behaviors by a reverse process. The main question of this study is: how do the dominant physical and spatial features of the Jame (Atiq) mosque impa...

Abstract The Seljuk period is one of the most brilliant periods in the history of Iran architectural art. Many instances of such architectural works can be found in Isfahan, the political and cultural capital of Iran. Following the political and religious developments in capital, Ardestan considered as one major active center. This led to some changes in Jame Mosque of Ardestan over the time. J...

SAVEH JAME mosque was erected in different periods like Isfahan's and Ardestan's Jame. Consideration of these constructions provides a lot of information about Iranian architecture evolution. Therefore, scholars analyze and separate the historical and physical periods in these buildings to understand Iranian architecture and the process of conversions correctly, based on historical method. Main...

Kufic inscription is one of the prevailing inscriptions in most of the mosques and minarets of the early Islamic centuries. The style of Kufic inscriptions was appropriate to be implemented by the technique of pre-cut brickwork. Therefore with the brickwork prosperity as the material of structure and ornaments of the facades in Razi style and especially the Seljuk era, the brick Kufic inscripti...