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Semnan province office for research and study of outsider Iranians

Tarikhaneh mosque ,Damghan
The building of this mosque is located in southern west of the city and is one of the most important which remained from the primitive Islamic centuries in Iran, someone believe the date of making this mosque comes back to the end of 2nd lunar hejira . The name of this mosque consist of two words , the first one (tray) with meaning of (GOD) that it is a Turkish word.The mosque 's plan consist of onr gaudy yard that toward the Kiblah a hall with columns and the other three side a series of porch are exist.
At the present time the columns 's hall have 7 vertical spout and 3 horizontal spout and the middle spout are higher than side and include the altar .
There are same saying which goes the plane of this mosque is accordance with Arabic style but in structural it has root from traditional agriculture and local Sassanid era.

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