phenomenon of writing petition from the perspective of writers (petition in well of jamkaran mosque)

This paper examines the phenomenon of writing petition (write a letter Containing a Presentation of wish, to imam) presented from the perspective of actors. The main purpose of this paper is to accede to writer's experience of special connection to the sacred and then to answer two basic question: 1. the person who write the petition and put it in jamkaran well, how to look at this action?2. what is the typology of writer's petition?This topic was analyzed with using Qualitative method. Data were collected in different ways including depth interviews, participant observation, focus group discussions and creating friendly conversation. Our findings shows that it can be seen a type of religiosity called popular religiosity in this phenomenon. Some features of this type of religiosity are: easy acceptance of beliefs, confluence of the sacred and non-sacred, dory ultimate commitment, the involvement of intermediaries, miscible teaching and etc.