Vol.:(0123456789) Journal of Religion and Health https://doi.org/10.1007/s10943-019-00973-w 1 3 ORIGINAL PAPER The Efect of Religion and Denomination on Calmness in Residential Spaces Based on Islamic Teachings Ali Khaki 1 © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2020 Abstract As elements of culture and also as social-cultural phenomena, religion and denomi- nation are the sources of creating change, diference and contrast in various places. Although indiference has been practically the approach adopted toward religion and its belongings in the contemporary world and today’s human life, the religious and Islamic discussions have been among the important issues drawing a lot of atten- tions from the contemporaries in the theoretical arena. Islam has paid a particular attention to the house as the place of living and calmness for the human beings and believes in certain conditions for it. The theoretical foundations of Islamic mindset are neglected in today’s houses so they are in need of revitalization in their designs and redesigning based on the original Islamic patterns. Nowadays, spatial meaning- fulness is among the most important solutions of granting quality to the architectural spaces, especially residential spaces, and the designers and architects are making eforts in the area of paying attention to such concepts as calmness that can subse- quently lead to the psychological health. The environmental designers and planners have paid attention to the quality of spaces and the role of perceptional indicators in forming the various spaces with the development of the human communities and appearance of meanings’ gaps in the constructed spaces. These are the spaces that induce a sense of tranquility and pleasure followed by a sense of attachment and identity to the audience mind and revive the feelings of being present and existent in them. In this article, the efect of the Islamic teachings on the architectural spaces and places as theoretical bases has been investigated in various areas. The current article has been conducted with the objective of investigating the Islamic architec- tural pattern related to the housing in the Holy Quran’s ĀYĀT and the possibility of using it as an Islamic pattern as a result of doing research and exploration in the Holy Quran, Nemooneh Interpretation and relevant articles and books. The achieve- ment of the Islamic pattern and methods for semantic qualifcation and their applica- tion to a place and creating of an environmental calmness followed by psychological health based on the Islamic teachings in the residential spaces are among the fnd- ings underlined by the present research paper. Extended author information available on the last page of the article