The Impact of Religious Places on the Feeling of Safety Among Women Case Study Imamzade Yahya in Sari

Security and safety are considered as one of the principles of designing urban spaces for planners and urban planners. The lack of security in the open spaces of the cities reduces the vitality and availability of space. In this regard, women are more vulnerable than men, in other words, feel less secure in more places and have a diminutive presence.
In this research, Imamzadeh Yahya Square in the city of Sari has been considered as a public space and the construction of Emamzadeh as one of the religious places has been measured in terms of security feeling. The research method is a quantitative. The research data was collected through a survey with a sample size of 96 people, field studies, interviews and questionnaire. In order to determine the level of women's sense of security in this urban environment, the religious place was seen as an independent variable and the sense of security with reagents such as readability, vitality, etc has been investigated as a dependent variable. The findings indicate that more than half of the women consider the Emamzadeh's tomb effective in their sense of security. According to research hypotheses, there is a direct relation between the existence of the emamzadeh (religious places) in the city and the sense of security.