تصنيف المساجد طبقا لرمزية العناصر المعمارية : دراسة تحليلية لمسجد باصونة - مصر

Abstract AR

Mosques have a special historical character and architectural richness that surpasses other architectural works.

It is not limited to performing its function as a house of worship only; rather it exceeds it, as it carries within it a record of the history of islamic civilization throughout its ages.

In many Muslim-majority countries, the historical picture of mosque architecture has dominated minds.

That image is reused in designing the mosque elements.

The architectural elements in the mosques were transformed into symbolic elements, so the minaret and the dome became the most prominent formation elements of the mosque architecture and the visual image of the islamic city.

Thus, the features of the formative legacy of the mosque's architecture and its expressive elements are associated with fixed frameworks that they do not overlook, which are the original when designing any mosque, Which prompted the expressive formulation of the mosque to be predetermined, linked in the minds of the designer and the user in forms that may not accept change.

With the emergence of modern architectural trends at the end of the eighteenth century, as a result of many social, political and economic factors, along with the emergence and development of new materials in construction,

This in turn affected the architecture of mosques and changed the historical mental image and developed it at the urban, formal and technical levels.

This problem, which represents a state of contradiction, led to the emergence of modern forms of the architectural vocabulary of the mosque and even their disappearance in other times.

Therefore, the research focuses through its theoretical and analytical methodology to analyze theories and opinions about the symbolism and modernity of the original architectural elements in the architectural composition of the mosque without entering into its historical development.

Extracting a classification of contemporary mosques according to the symbolism of their architectural elements, This is followed by an analytical study of symbolic elements in one of the contemporary mosque models, through studying the concept of symbolism in architecture and reviewing the modern architectural elements of the mosque through this concept.