Urban Development Policy Making

Urban Development Policy Making

Redefinition the Design Basics of Sacred Defense Museums in Iran Approaching of Islamic Civilization

Document Type : Original Article

Author
Asghar Molaei
Associate Professor, Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning, Tabriz Islamic Art University, Tabriz, Iran
10.22034/judpm.2026.572859.1086
Abstract
Museums are places of memory and space to preserve, introduce and publish the culture of the past and the works left from the past history of the land. Sacred defense museums are created as collections to collect, recognize and publish the culture of sacred defense and research in this direction. The necessity and importance of these museums can be derived from the intellectual foundations and religious, national and patriotic ideas. The country of Iran, focusing on Islamic and Iranian culture and foundations, and having gone through many wars and incidents in the battle with its many enemies, has a great history in the holy defense, which research is in line with what, why and how to design the museums of the holy defense. It can be a way to read and explain the future path. Therefore, this article aims to explain the dimensions and necessities of the design of sacred defense museums with a qualitative approach, which tries to do this research by studying case examples of war and military museums in different countries of the world and studying documents and libraries. . The results of this research show that the basics of designing war and military museums in world records, especially in western countries, include the defense of the homeland and homeland, displaying national honors and honoring the soldiers and officers who died and survived the war, as well as human rights with an emphasis It is about the killings and destruction left over from the First and Second World Wars and regional and local wars. But the foundations of the design of the sacred defense museums are based on the sanctity of defense and Islamic values, God-centered, Velayat-centered, and resurrection belief, which is manifested in the form of the concepts of martyrdom and sacrifice and through the tools, memories, wisdom, and sacrifices of warriors and martyrs, Martyrdom lifestyle, spirituality and requirements of Iranian-Islamic architecture and the urban Arsan pattern.
Keywords
Holy Defense Museum
urban identity
sacrifice
martyrdom
sustainability
Iranian Islamic Civilization
Subjects
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Urban Development Policy Making
Volume 3, Issue 2
Summer 2026
Pages 315-337

  • Receive Date 26 November 2025
  • Revise Date 29 December 2025
  • Accept Date 20 February 2026
  • Publish Date 01 June 2026