List of Friday mosques designed by Mimar Sinan

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Suleymaniye Mosque which Mimar Sinan considered his most important work PIC 2004-08-20 11-24 9538.jpg
Süleymaniye Mosque which Mimar Sinan considered his most important work

This is a list of the Friday mosques for which the Ottoman architect Mimar Sinan claimed responsibility in his autobiographies. Of the 77 mosques in the list, 39 are in Istanbul.

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Background

Mimar Sinan was appointed to the post of chief Ottoman architect by the grand vizier Ayas Mehmed Pasha in 1539. Sinan occupied the position until his death in 1588 and served under three sultans: Süleyman I (ruled 1520–66), Selim II (ruled 1566–74) and Murad III (ruled 1574–95). [1] In his autobiography Biographical Memoir of Construction (Teẕkiretü’l-bünyān), Sinan claimed to have designed 698 building including 80 Friday mosques and more than 400 smaller community mosques ( masjids ). [2] In reality he led a team of royal architects and the buildings would have been collective works. [3] Sinan himself would have been occupied with the large building projects undertaken for the sultan. These were the Şehzade Mosque (1543–48), the Süleymaniye Mosque (1548–59), the Kirkçeşme waterworks (1561–65), the Büyükçekmece bridge (1565–67) and the Selimiye Mosque in Edirne (1568–74). After this date, during the rule of Murad III, there were no major construction projects and as an old man he would have entrusted the work to other architects. [4]

The following list of 77 Friday mosques was compiled by the historian Gülru Necipoğlu. It is based on the lists appended to two of Sinan's autobiographies: Gift of the Architects (Tuḥfetü’l-miʿmārīn) and Biographical Memoir of Buildings (Teẕkiretü’l-ebniye). [5] The list excludes older mosques that Sinan renovated and those converted into Friday mosques from older community mosques. [6]

Chronological list of Friday mosques

DateNameLocationDome diameterListed dependencies
c. 1537Shahsultan Mosque Eyüp, Istanbulhipped roofnon-extant: dervish convent
1538/39–1540 Haseki Sultan Mosque Haseki, Istanbul11.3 m (37 ft)madrassa, hospital, elementary school
1538–39Çavuşbaşı or Sütlüce Mosque (extensively rebuilt)Sütlüce, Istanbulhipped roofnone
1541–42Tercüman Yunus Beg Mosque (extensively rebuilt)Balat, Istanbulhipped roofmadrasa
c. 1541–44Hadım Ali Pasha Mosque Diyarbakır, Turkey14.4 m (47 ft)madrasa
c. 1542–47Çukurcuma Mosque (completely rebuilt) Tophane, Istanbulhipped roofnone
c. 1543Nişancı Mustafa Çelebi Mosque (completely rebuilt) Eyüp, Istanbulprobably hipped roofnon-extant: bath-house
1543–44Osmanshah's mother (non-extant) Aksaray, Istanbulhipped roofnon-extant: madrasa
c. 1543/44–1548 Mihrimah Sultan Mosque Üsküdar, Istanbul11.4 m (37 ft)madrasa; non-extant: hospice
1543–1548 Şehzade Mosque Şehzadebası, Istanbul19 m (62 ft)mausoleum, madrasa, hospice, elementary school, caravansarai
c. 1546–47Khusrawiyya Mosque (heavily damaged during civil war) Aleppo, Syriaapprox. 18 m (59 ft)madrasa
1547–48Sofu Mehmed Pasha Mosque now Sveti Sedmochislenitsi Church (converted to a church in early 20th century) Sofia, Bulgaria18.3 m (60 ft)none
1548–59 Süleymaniye Mosque Süleymaniye, Istanbul26.5 m (87 ft)four madrasas, hadith college, medical college, Quran recitation school, hospital, hospice, caravansarai, bath-house, elementary school
1550–1552/53Rüstem Pasha Mosque Tekirdağ, Turkey13.3 m (44 ft)hospice, madrasa; non-extant: caravansarai
c. 1550–57Takiyya al–Khassaki Sultan Mosque (partly extant; see Haseki Sultan Imaret) Jerusalem hospice; non-extant: madrasa
1551 Hadim Ibrahim Pasha Mosque Silivrikapı, Istanbul12 m (39 ft)mausoleum; non-extant: bath-house
1551–65Çerkes İskender Pasha Mosque Diyarbakır, Turkeyapprox. 15 m (49 ft)none
c. 1552–57Rüstem Pasha Mosque (completely rebuilt) Sapanca, Turkeyhipped roofhospice, bath-house; non-extant: caravansarai
c. 1552Merkez Efendi Mosque (completely rebuilt)Yenikapı, Istanbulhipped roofbath-house
c. 1552Tatar Khan or Juma-Jami Mosque Yevpatoria, Ukraine6.0 m (19.7 ft)non-extant: mausoleum
1553–54Kapıağası Mahmud Agha Mosque (extensively rebuilt)Ahırkapı, Istanbulprobably hipped roofnon-extant: madrasa, mausoleum
1553–54Defterelar Ebulfaz Mehmed Efendi Mosque (non-extant) Tophane, Istanbulhipped roofnon-extant: mausoleum
1554–58/59 Sulaymaniyya Takiyya Mosque Damascus, Syria10 m (33 ft)hospice, madrasa
1554–55Kazasker Abdurrahman Çelebi Mosque (non-extant)Çapa, Istanbulhipped roofnon-extant: mausoleum
1554–55/56 Sinan Pasha Mosque Beşiktaş, Istanbul12.6 m (41 ft)madrasa; non-extant: bath-house
1555 (planned), c. 1565–71/72 Kara Ahmed Pasha Mosque Topkapı, Istanbul12 m (39 ft)madrasa, mausoleum
1556–65/66 Al-Adiliyah Mosque Aleppo, Syriaunknownnone
c. 1557–60Rüstem Pasha Mosque (non-extant)Samanlı (now Yalova)probably hipped roofnon-extant: caravansarai
c. 1557–60Rüstem Pasha Mosque (non-extant) Bolu, Turkeyprobably hipped roofnon-extant: double caravansarai
1558 Selimiye Mosque Konya 12 m (39 ft)(Architect was probably Sinan)
1557–58 Karađoz Bey Mosque Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina10.7 m (35 ft)none
1559–60Haseki Sultan Mosque (non-extant) Svilengrad, Bulgariahipped roofnon-extant: hospice
1559–60Cihangir Mosque (completely rebuilt) Cihangir, Istanbulhipped roofnone
1559–60 İskender Pasha Mosque (extensively rebuilt) Kanlıca, Istanbulhipped roofmausoleum; non-extant: madrasa, bath-house
1559–60Ferhad Pasha Mosque (extensively rebuilt) Kastamonu, Turkeyhipped roofnone
c. 1560/61–1562/63Hürrem Çavus Mosque Karagümrük, Istanbulhipped roofnone
1560–63/64Sultaniya Mosque Karapınar, Turkey14.8 m (49 ft)hospice, bath-house, caravansarai
c. 1661–65Semiz Ali Pasha Mosque Marmara Ereğlisi hipped roofnone
c. 1561Rüstem Pasha Mosque (extensively renovated) Bolvadin, Turkey13.9 m (46 ft)none
c. 1561–63 Rüstem Pasha Mosque Tahtakale, Istanbul15.2 m (50 ft)none
c. 1563–70 Mihrimah Sultan Mosque Edirnekapı, Istanbul20.3 m (67 ft)madrasa, bath–house
1562–63Ferruh Kethüda Mosque Balat, Istanbulhipped roofnone
1562–63Odabaşı Behruz Agha Mosque (extensively rebuilt)Şehremini, Istanbulhipped roofnon-extant: bath-house
c. 1562–63Binaemini Sinan Agha MosqueYenibahçe, Istanbulhipped roofnone
1562–63Lala Mustafa Pasha Mosque Erzurum, Turkey10.6 m (35 ft)none
1565–69/70 Sokollu Mehmed Pasha Mosque Lüleburgaz, Turkey12.5 m (41 ft)madrasa; non-extant: hospice, caravansarai
c. 1565–73 Piyale Pasha Mosque Kasımpaşa, Istanbul6 × 8.9 m (29 ft)none
1565–66Cenabi Ahmed Pasha Mosque Ankara, Turkey14.4 m (47 ft)none
c. 1565–69/70Firdevs Pasha Mosque Isparta, Turkey12.4 m (41 ft)none
c. 1564/65–1572/73 Behram Pasha Mosque Diyarbakır, Turkey15.9 m (52 ft)none
c. 1566–70Lala Hüseyin Pasha Mosque Kütahya, Turkey12.5 m (41 ft)none
c. 1566–78Sokollu Mustafa Pasha Mosque (non-extant) Budapest, Hungaryunknownnon-extant: mausoleum
c. 1566/67–70 Osman Shah Mosque Trikala, Greece18 m (59 ft)none
1567–68Köse Hüsrev Pasha Mosque Van, Turkey 14.8 m (49 ft)non-extant: madrasa
1567–68Mevlana Efendi Mosque (completely rebuilt) Üsküdar, Istanbulhipped roofnone
c. 1567/68–1571/72 Sokollu Mehmed Pasha Mosque Kadırgalimanı, Istanbul13 m (43 ft)madrasa, dervish convent
1567–74Sokollu Mehmed Pasha Mosque Payas, Turkeyapprox. 8 m (26 ft)hospice, caravansarai
1568–74 Selimiye Mosque Edirne, Turkey31.2 m (102 ft)madrasa, hadith college, Quran recitation school
c. 1569–74Defterdar Mustafa Çelebi Mosque (dome rebuilt) Edirne, Turkey12 m (39 ft)none
c. 1569–75 (1585–86 portico and courtyard)Semiz Ali Pasha Mosque Babaeski, Turkey14 m (46 ft)non-extant: madrasa
1571–83 (expanded 1584–85/86) Atik Valide Mosque Üsküdar, Istanbul12.7 m (42 ft)madrasa, Quran recitation school, hospital, dervish convent, caravansarai, bath-house
c. 1570–84 Molla Çelebi Mosque Beyoğlu, Istanbul11.8 m (39 ft)non-extant: bath-house
1570–71Murad Pasha Mosque (extensively renovated) Baghdad, Iraqunknownnone
1572–79/80 Pertev Pasha Mosque İzmit, Turkey16.4 m (54 ft)none
1573–77Sokollu Kasim Bey Mosque (missing portico) Havsa, Turkeyapprox. 13 m (43 ft)hospice, bath-house; non-extant: caravansarai
c. 1573–77/78 Sokollu Mehmed Pasha Mosque Azapkapı, Istanbul11.8 m (39 ft)bath-house
c. 1575–88Ferhad Pasha Mosque Çatalca, Turkey9.2 m (30 ft)none
c. 1576–85/86Haci Ahmed Pasha Mosque Kayseri, Turkey12.3 m (40 ft)none
1577–90 Zal Mahmud Pasha Mosque Eyüp, Istanbul12.4 m (41 ft)mausoleum, twin madrasas
1578–80/81 Kılıç Ali Pasha Mosque Tophane, Istanbul12.7 m (42 ft)mausoleum, bath-house
1580–81 Şemsi Pasha Mosque Üsküdar, Istanbul8.2 m (27 ft)mausoleum, madrasa; non-extant: dervish convent
1583–86/87 Muradiye Mosque Manisa, Turkey10.6 m (35 ft)hospice
1584–85Mehmed Agha Mosque Çarşamba, Istanbul11.8 m (39 ft)mausoleum
1584–85/86 Mesih Mehmed Pasha Mosque Hırka-i Şerif, Istanbul12.8 m (42 ft)mausoleum
1584/85–88/89Nişancı Mehmed Pasha Mosque Karagümrük, Istanbul14.2 m (47 ft)mausoleum
1585Hacı Evhad Mosque Yedikule, Istanbulhipped roofnone
1585–86Ramazan Efendi MosqueKocamustafapaşa, Istanbulhipped roofnone
c. 1587–91Melek Ahmed Pasha Mosque Diyarbakır, Turkey11.5 m (38 ft)none

See also

References

  1. Necipoğlu 2005, p. 27.
  2. Necipoğlu 2005, pp. 135–136.
  3. Necipoğlu 2005, p. 135.
  4. Necipoğlu 2005, p. 181.
  5. Necipoğlu 2005, pp. 558–561.
  6. Necipoğlu 2005, p. 47.

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