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The mausoleum of Davazdah Imams of Yazd is a thousand-year-old building with a valuable inscription in decorative Kufic script under the dome, which is very important in terms of visual richness and worthy of study. Gestalt is one of the theories of the visual perception process in psychology, and the principles of this theory can be useful in the recognition of works of art. The most important principles of Gestalt are the principle of similarity, symmetry, proximity, closure, Integration, continuance, Figure & ground relationship, Inclusiveness and common fate that in the current research, five principles of these rules have been tried to be used for visual analysis and evaluation of the perceptual quality of this inscription. In this way, the amount of use of these principles in its design will be determined and the quality of the resulting pragnanz and the most effective factors in its creation should be revealed. This research seeks to answer the question that to what extent and how the principles of similarity, proximity, symmetry, closure and Inclusiveness were used in the design of the inscription of the tomb of the Davazdah Imams, and what is the degree of resulting pragnanz from the use of each of these principles? This research was carried out in a descriptive-analytical way and the data were collected through library studies and field surveys. The results showed that the principles of similarity and Inclusiveness were used to a large extent, the principle of proximity and closure to a relatively large extent, and the principle of symmetry to an average extent were used in this inscription. The result of the application of these principles is the realization of pragnanz to a large extent, and as a result, the better organization of the components, the easier reception of the work and the active communication of the audience with this inscription. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]