Evaluation of Spatial Fictions, Design Concepts, Aesthetic Quests of Traditional, Modern Mosques from Past to Present and the Analysis of Mosque Samples

Mosque has played a central role in Islamic society. The Prophet ordered for the construction of a mosque in Medina (Yesrib) where he arrived after hegira, thus he began to form Islamic institutions from the mosque. That's why the mosque maintained its place throughout the history as an important source for Islamic institutions. Mosques are also the spaces, as a socio - cultural element, where the social life is maintained, which are used for worship by Muslims as their primary objective, which are appropriate for individual and common worship and where they are educated religiously. Mosques have been always considered as an area of usage for people, and for achievement of these functions in a healthy manner; necessary elements of the structure should comply with users' properties and should be convenient for use. Besides being functional, further architectural features which the mosques are required to involve are that; they should meet users' aesthetic quests and should have a design concept. Evaluation criteria in architecture depend on