Architect

Mimar Sinan

Mimar Sinan was the chief Ottoman architect and engineer, responsible for an extraordinary body of imperial mosques, bridges, and civic works that shaped classical Ottoman architecture.

1488-1588

Ottoman

Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey

Sacred Building Sacred Space Mosque Religious Building Imperial Complex Civic Complex Building Housing

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Gallery

Seven Saints Church, Sofia in Sofia, Bulgaria

Mimar Sinan gallery

Seven Saints Church, Sofia image

Bulgarian Orthodox church in Sofia, Bulgaria

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Gazi Husrev-beg Mosque image

Mosque in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

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Haseki Sultan Complex image

Mosque in Istanbul, Turkey

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Defterdar Mosque image

Mosque in Eyüp, Istanbul, Turkey

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Sehzade Mosque image

Seed wave 37 image for the Şehzade Mosque.

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Khusruwiyah Mosque image

Former mosque in Aleppo, Syria

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Mihrimah Sultan Mosque, Üsküdar image

16th century Turkish mosque

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Suleymaniye Mosque image

Seed wave 37 image for the Suleymaniye Mosque.

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Works

Bureaus

Books

Places

Cities

Istanbul13 Edirne3 Aleppo2 Beyoğlu2 Edirne Province2 Istanbul Province2

Countries

Turkey38 Bosnia and Herzegovina4 Bulgaria4 Syria3 Albania1 Croatia1

Sources

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Focus

mosque · sacred space · infrastructure

Stone Brick

Bureaus

Bureau

Mimar Sinan

studio · Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey

Role: founder

Years: 1539-1588

Founder relationship

Selected works

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Seven Saints Church, Sofia

1528 · Sofia, Bulgaria

Sacred building

Mimar Sinan

Gazi Husrev-beg Mosque

1531 · Stari Grad, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Sacred building

Mimar Sinan

Haseki Sultan Complex

1538 · Istanbul, Turkey

Sacred building

Mimar Sinan

Defterdar Mosque

1542 · Istanbul Province, Turkey

Sacred building

Mimar Sinan

Sehzade Mosque

1543-1548 · Istanbul, Turkey

Mosque

Mimar Sinan

Khusruwiyah Mosque

1547 · Aleppo, Syria

Sacred building

Mimar Sinan

Mihrimah Sultan Mosque, Üsküdar

1548 · Üsküdar, Turkey

Sacred building

Mimar Sinan

Suleymaniye Mosque

1550-1557 · Istanbul, Turkey

Mosque and religious complex

Mimar Sinan

Hadim Ibrahim Pasha Mosque

1551 · Istanbul, Turkey

Sacred building

Mimar Sinan

Sinan Pasha Mosque (Istanbul)

1554 · Beşiktaş, Turkey

Sacred building

Mimar Sinan

Sulaymaniyya Takiyya

1554 · Damascus, Syria

Architecture

Mimar Sinan

Hürrem Sultan Hamam

1556 · Istanbul, Turkey

Architecture

Mimar Sinan