Locating Pattern recognition of mosque's lateral uses in regional mosques (In terms of consistency of lateral functions with religious function)

Selecting the functions and location of deployment of them are the most challenging parts of the mosque's design and any perspective on choosing applications and identifying their location on the plan can lead to the design of a particular architecture in mosques. The main objective of this article is to classify the viewpoints of architects in relation to the introduction of lateral uses. to achieve this goal, after the functions in the mosque at the regional scale identification, by referring verdicts religious scholars, consistency criteria of each function with religious function was determined, and questionnaire responses were given to statistical society including two groups of religious and architectural experts. To analyze the questionnaires, Topsis method were assessed. After that considering the degree of compatibility, the position of lateral functions of mosques Relative to Main spaces of worship in regional mosques was identified. Based on this, consistent criteria of each function with religious function, are failure to conflict with the mosque and not to disturb the worshipers. According To these criteria, lateral functions of mosques were classified to four categories include very consistent, consistent, slightly consistent and inconsistent with religious function. Then, 5 states were identified to determine the experts' opinion regarding the space deployment of each lateral function. Based on this, another closed questionnaire responses was designed and was gave to 25 Experts of mosque designer. Then answers was analyzed with the Chi-squared test. Openions can be classified into three perspectives that each point lead to an special architecture. The results show that regional mosques can be categorized in 3 models :service mosque, prayer mosque and social -Ebadi mosque, which according to the analysis of the type of placement relationship with degrees of adaptation the desirable model in programming and design of the architecture is the social mosque-Ebadi model.