EThe Comparative comparison of Isfahan’s Imam Mosque and Istanbul's Suleymaniye Mosque geometry on the basis of archetype concepts

The archetype concepts have a special place in the framework structure of civic indicator works. The mosque allocated a main place to itself in the framework of Islamic architecture. The purpose of the current study is to compare the geometry of two indicated works of Iran and Ottoman civilization domain in warm and dry climate which based on the archetype knowledge concepts. The concepts of archetype that are the constructor of mental imagination of different symbols, hidden in the collective subconscious and can be analyzed in order to find the relationship between the geometry of two buildings according to comparative comparisons. From historical aspect the best mosques have been built in Isfahan during the Safavid period that Imam Mosques is one of the most important samples, at the same time in the Istanbul, Ottoman government made important mosques such as Suleymaniye Mosque. The content of this paper is qualitative, its base is historical-descriptive survey and the analytical-comparative approach with coding has used to collect the obtained information. The main question of research is the state of relationship between the geometry of Suleymaniye and Imam Mosques on the basis of archetype contents. For this purpose, the most important archetype symbolic concepts were identified first, then, studied and analyzed by axial coding in the mosque's spaces. The results show that one form of archetype transmitted to the studied mosques because it was identified to Safavid and Ottoman people and its continuity as a pre-accepted sacred form that despite appearance and underlying difference in Imam and Suleymaniye mosques’ geometric patterns, illustrates affinity and segregated dimensions of forms’ application. The continuity in the transmission of a ritual shape from pre-Islamic architecture to the Safavid and Ottoman periods and utilization of this tool in the structure of Imam and Sulaimaniye mosques, indicates the permanent presence of archetype patterns in the geometric pattern of mosques.