إشكاليات التسمية بين المسجد والجامع في العمارة الإسلامية

Abstract

The word (masjid) has been replaced by congregational mosque in Islamic architecture and among the general public as well, to the point that we rarely hear the word mosque. What is common among people is that a congregational mosque has a pulpit and Friday prayers are held in it, while a mosque does not have a pulpit and Friday prayers are not held in it. The truth is that the majority of mosques have pulpits and Friday prayers are held in them, so the name congregational mosque is repeated more than the name mosque. The larger the mosque is and the more worshipers visit it, the more it is called a congregational mosque. It is wrong to call it a mosque in the common concept, and this is the wrong fact that we are working to correct in this research.

There must be factors that influenced and prompted some mosques to be called congregations, although the name congregational mosque was not mentioned in the Holy Quran or the Sunnah of the Messenger (may God bless him and grant him peace), or even in the era of the Rightly-Guided Caliphs, and this is what we noticed during the research and investigation.  Before delving into the problems of naming between the masjid and the congregational mosque, we must present the factors that affected the planning and architecture of the mosque until it became in the form or forms that the planning and architecture of mosques reached, starting with the Prophet’s masjad and passing through other mosques.