Introduction and Physical Investigation Mosque-madrassa of karim Ishan, the First Religious school of Iranian Turkmen

ABSTRACT: Mosques and religious places have had special place in Iranian traditional architecture. The importance of self-purification and training has been manifested by constructing mosques with multiple applications serving as a place for both training and worship. Although, in Iranian past architectural style, there could be hardly found buildings serving as mosque and madrassa at the same time. Allocating a separate building as madrassa, near to mosque is privilege of the building to other mosques and madrassa. It is not unlikely that such a rich architectural work is seen in the central regions of Iran. However, locating the masque-madrassa of Seyyed Ghelich Ishan, in a remote village in the northof Iran is an interesting reality arising so many questions. The purpose of the authors of this article is not to give a perfect investigation of this mysterious complex. Instead, they are about to introduce this complex and to open the way of further studies and researches on various aspects of it. Thus, this paper investigates the features of the mosque and mdrassa and the trend of its changes till now.