Sinan, also called Mimar Sinan (“Architect Sinan”) or Mimar Koca Sinan (“Great Architect Sinan”) (born c. 1490, Ağırnaz, Turkey—died July 17, 1588, Constantinople [now Istanbul]), most celebrated of all Ottoman architects, whose ideas, perfected in the construction of mosques and other buildings, served as the basic themes for virtually all later Turkish religious and civic architecture. The son of Greek or Armenian Christian parents, Sinan entered his father’s trade as a stone mason and carpenter.
↑Zaryan, Sinan, Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia, p. 385.
↑Kouymjian, Dickran. "Armenia from the Fall of the Cilician Kingdom (1375) to the Forced Emigration under Shah Abbas (1604)" in The Armenian People From Ancient to Modern Times, Volume II: Foreign Dominion to Statehood: The Fifteenth Century to the Twentieth Century. Richard G. Hovannisian (ed.). New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997, p. 13. ISBN0-312-10168-6.
↑Jackson, Thomas Graham (1913). Byzantine and Romanesque Architecture, Volume 1. Cambridge University Press. p. 143. They are many of them designed by Sinan, who is said to have been an Armenian
↑Sitwell, Sacheverell (1939). Old Fashioned Flowers. Country Life. p. 74. The architect Sinan, perhaps of Armenian descent, raised mosques and other buildings all over the Turkish Empire.
↑Talbot, Hamlin Architecture Through the Ages. University of Michigan, p. 208.
↑Byzantium and the Magyars, Gyula Moravcsik, Samuel R. Rosenbaum p.28.
↑Kathleen Kuiper. Islamic Art, Literature, and Culture. — The Rosen Publishing Group, 2009 — p. 204 — ISBN9781615300976: "The son of Greek Orthodox parents, Sinan entered his father's trade as a stone mason and carpenter." .
↑Sinan: the grand old master of Ottoman architecture, p. 35, Aptullah Kuran, Institute of Turkish Studies, 1987
↑Walker, Benjamin and Peter Owen Foundations of Islam: the making of a world faith, 1998, p. 275.
↑Rogers, J. M. (2006). Sinan: Makers of Islamic Civilization. I.B.Tauris: Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies. p. backcover. ISBN978-1-84511-096-3. (Sinan) He was born in Cappadocia, probably into a Greek Christian family. Drafted into the Janissaries during his adolescence, he rapidly gained promotion and distinction as a military engineer.
↑al-Lubnānī lil-Dirāsāt, Markaz (1992). The Beirut review, Issue 3. Lebanese Center for Policy Studies. p. 113. สืบค้นเมื่อ 2012-04-05.
↑Brown, Percy (1942). Indian architecture: (The Islamic period). Taraporevala Sons. p. 94. … the fame of the leading Ottoman architect, Sinan, having reached his ears, he is reported to have invited certain pupils of this Albanian genius to India to carry out his architectural schemes.
↑Akgündüz Ahmed & Öztürk Said, (2011), Ottoman History, Misperfections and Truths, IUR Press (Islamitische Universiteit Rotterdam), Pg.196, See online. Quoted from the book: "According to yet another view, Sinan came from a Christian Turkish family, whose father's name was Abdulmennan and his grandfather's Doğan Yusuf."
↑Brown, Percy (1942). Indian architecture: (The Islamic period). Taraporevala Sons. p. 92. สืบค้นเมื่อ 2012-04-05. … the fame of the leading Ottoman architect, Sinan, having reached his ears, he is reported to have invited certain pupils of this Albanian genius to India to carry out his architectural schemes.
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(in Armenian) Alboyajian, Arshag A. Պատմութիին հայ Կեսարիոյ (History of Armenian Kayseri). 2 vols. Cairo: H. Papazian, 1937.
(in Turkish) Çelebi, Sai Mustafa (2004). Book of Buildings : Tezkiretü'l Bünyan Ve Tezkiretü'l-Ebniye (Memoirs of Sinan the Architect). Koç Kültür Sanat Tanıtım ISBN975-296-017-0
Güler, Ara; Burelli, Augusto Romano; Freely, John (1992). Sinan: Architect of Suleyman the Magnificent and the Ottoman Golden Age. WW Norton & Co. Inc. ISBN0-500-34120-6