Comperative Study of Timurid and Turkmen mosques architecture based on the physical components

The Turkman period is one of the important periods in architectural studies of the Iranian Period. Locating in the border areas between the countries and remaining few buildings due to earthquake caused the research in the architecture of this period encountered to challenges. These challenges led to the Turkman buildings being studied under Timurid architecture in Iran and under Ottoman architecture in Turkey. Consequently, the architecture of the Turkoman period was little known. Mosques are important architectural types representing part of this period's architectural features. Examination of historic documents, research, and the discovery of the base of Hassan Padshah (King Hassan) Mosque in recent archeological excavations make it possible to re-study the mosques of this historical period to determine the architectural features of Turkman mosques in comparison with Timurid mosques. The current research aims to compare the mosques of the Timurid and Turkman periods to determine the architectural differences and commonalities of the mosques of these two periods, which had cultural and political relations with each other in a historical period, to gain a better understanding of the architecture of this period. The results of this comparative study show: the cultural transfers between the Timurids and the Turkmens caused the architectural style of the mosques of these two dynasties to be mutually discussed, which led to the formation of commonalities in architecture. These cultural traditions did not cause the lack of independence of art and architecture of any of the dynasties.