Recognition and Assessment of Components Affecting the Sense of Place in the Ritual Spaces in Mazandaran; Case Study: Ask Tribe's Takyeh, Amol City

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1 Ph.D. in Architecture, Faculty of Architecture, Islamic Azad University, Noor, Iran.

2 Professor of Architecture, Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning, Islamic Azad University, Central Tehran Branch, Tehran, Iran (Corresponding Author).

Abstract

Ashura mourning rituals have been considered the most long-standing factor for social unity and collective memory of the people of Shiite culture. Among various collective spaces, Takyehes have played a key role in the formation of the human identity of tribes, due to the people's beliefs, and holding Muharram rituals in them, on the one hand, and have led to the identification of places for social interactions and belonging and thereby the enhancement of sense of place, dynamism, and permanence in the collective memory of the people. Takyeh as a cultural-ritual space has the potential to contribute to a process through which Shiites develop and maintain a sense of place, belonging, and identity. Therefore, the present study is to recognize and assess the dimensions and components affecting the sense of place in Takyehes. The present study is applied survey research. The statistical population includes the residents of Amol city from the Ask Tribe of which 261 people are selected as samples using the simple random sampling technique. This tribe is composed of an ethnic and kinship structure in three climates "Mountain-Larijan", "City-Amol", and "plain-Ojiabad Village. The KMO index is obtained to be 0.943, indicating sampling adequacy. Moreover, Pearson correlation and regression are used to analyze the samples. The results indicate that there is a positive and significant correlation between all components affecting the sense of place (i.e. physical, functional, social, and semantic components) and the dimensions of the sense of belonging to the place (i.e. place attachment, place identity, place dependence, and commitment to place) in the statistical population, with the highest regression coefficient related to the "physical components" (0.408), followed by the "semantic components" (0.273).

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  • Receive Date: 20 April 2020
  • Revise Date: 01 May 2021
  • Accept Date: 07 May 2021

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