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Abstract

Architecture has sought since time immemorial to meet multiple human needs, starting from the basic physiological needs for human survival, psychological needs (social and individual) to needs related to human progress, such as taking into account the aesthetic and spiritual aspects, which represent the highest levels of those needs, through a set of design aspects and characteristics. This research is based on the study of the spiritual dimension of higher human needs in general that architecture seeks to meet, by studying that in the architecture of traditional cities, in particular, to enhance architectural knowledge with regard to the importance of investing its capabilities in reconstruction to ensure the creation of contemporary architecture with privacy and identity, so the problem was identified in light of this, in connection with the local reality in terms of the limited knowledge discourse about the investment of the most important aspects and design characteristics of what is known as spiritual architecture in reconstruction, in general, and in the reconstruction of the ancient city of Mosul in particular. The goal of the research is to provide clear knowledge of those aspects and characteristics associated with spiritual architecture. The religious and civil secular ones in terms of their sensory, material, aesthetic, and natural environment levels. The research has adopted the descriptive approach in analyzing theoretical propositions to formulate a theoretical proposition that paves the way for basic steps that can be adopted during reconstruction and investigated in two case studies of the architecture of the ancient city of Mosul, especially after what it was exposed to. Most of the religious and civil buildings of historical value were destroyed within their urban areas.

Keywords

Supreme human needs, Spiritual architecture, Reconstruction, Traditional architecture in Mosul.

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