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from Koya Grand Mosque - Islamic architecture

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The mosque takes a rectangular shape, its dimensions are 40 mx 50 m, and the total area of the mosque is 2000 square meters, and it consists of a prayer house in the tribal wall, a large courtyard in the middle, and galleries or wings on its four sides. The building of the mosque has a wonderful architectural style in terms of its planning, and it is also one of the most widespread and famous patterns in the countries of the world in the Islamic era.

• Entrances:

In the mosque there are two opposite entrances: the first entrance is located in the eastern wing and the second entrance in the western wing (figure / 1), and they are similar in shape, and they are approximately 2 m wide, and both entrances lead to a small corridor measuring 2 m by 5 m, located near From the prayer house or at the beginning of the side wings, and directly overlooks the courtyard.

• The courtyard: The mosque includes a large courtyard in the middle, measuring 30 mx 26 m, and it is one of the most important parts of the mosque (Fig. 27).

The prayer house in the mosque is rectangular in shape, its dimensions are 11 m 33 m. It consists of columns (a scoop) in four rows horizontally, the first row of columns is connected to the qibla wall, and the last row is connected to the back or north wall, and the house consists of Six poaiks (with a bow row of columns vertically) (Fig.3). The number of columns of the prayer house is 18, all of an octagonal shape, topped by a square-shaped base, its dimensions are 0.80 mx 0.80 m (Figure 4), and the base is surmounted by large shoulders.

The size, the columns and shoulders bear pointed arches built of marble stone, and the arches are located vertically and transversely in the prayer house and in the middle of the house there is an octagonal dome and a large size, its dimensions are 11 m x 11 m, and in the four side corners of the octagon there are decorations, polygons and squares decorated with prominent From the azimuth of the wall.

The prayer house also includes a large mihrab in the middle of the qibla wall. It is built of marble stone and is decorated with exquisite geometric and plant motifs. It includes an exquisite decorative frame that includes 21 architectural elements in the form of small mihrabs. They are large and small in size, and at the top of the mihrab arch are several Qur ’anic verses inside the circles and on the sides of the mihrab in a rectangular shape, and some other circles are decorated with geometric and plant motifs (Figure 6).

On the side of the mihrab, there is also a large minbar, built of marble stone, and the sides of the minbar are decorated with geometric and plant motifs as well. This pulpit, which is one of the most beautiful Ottoman pulpits built of marble in the region, includes in the front a rectangular stone entrance leading to the top of the minbar by a small staircase, and the pulpit at the top includes a small dome in a conical shape, and the sides of the minbar are decorated with several rectangular elements inside which geometric ornaments In the form of circles, squares, lozenges, and floral motifs in the form of leaves, branches and rosettes of various shapes (Figure / 7). The prayer house has three large entrances, and three windows in the north wall are rectangular in shape, with a mihrab shape from the inside. It turns out that the thickness of the wall of the prayer house is 1.5 m, which is the first old wall of the mosque, and inside the thickness of the northern wall of the prayer house there is a stairway with a width of 0.80 m leading to the small upper floor of the prayer house.

• The southern portico or the foreground:

It is the hallway that connects to the prayer house on the southern side of it, and overlooks The courtyard on the northern side, its dimensions are 3.5 mx 33 m. It includes seven pointed arches that overlook the courtyard with relatively large shoulders, and seven transverse arches in the portico (Fig. 87). The wing also includes three entrances: the large main entrance is located in the middle of the southern wall, its dimensions are 2 mx 3 m, and it includes a large decorative frame consisting of 21 architectural elements in the form of niches, and from the inside above the entrance it includes 33 architectural elements in the form of decorative squares ( Figure 97),

two large-sized frames, each of which includes on the top a written text in the Persian language in which the date of the mosque's construction is mentioned, while at the bottom it is divided into two parts, the first section includes a small mihrab, its dimensions are 0.80 m x 1.70 m .

• The wings:

the wings of the Great Mosque are two groups, which are the eastern wings or the eastern portico (figure / 12) and the western wings or the western portico (figure / 13), each of them consists of seven arches of the directorate of shape overlooking the courtyard, its dimensions are 5 m x 26 m, and these are used. The suites are currently for some service facilities, such as the ablution place and the imam and sermon room .. • The stern:

There is a stern in the mosque, which is similar to the two groups of side wings, as it consists of nine pointed arches (Figure / 14). • Minaret :

the minaret of the Jameh Mosque in Koysinjaq, it is most likely that it is not the original minaret in terms of its style compared to the old elements of the mosque, but it was built recently during the maintenance and restoration work in the mosque.