List of Friday mosques designed by Mimar Sinan


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.

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, Selim II and Murad III. In his autobiography Biographical Memoir of Construction, Sinan claimed to have designed 698 building including 80 Friday mosques and more than 400 smaller community mosques. In reality he led a team of royal architects and the buildings would have been collective works. Sinan himself would have been occupied with the large building projects undertaken for the sultan. These were the Şehzade Mosque, the Süleymaniye Mosque, the Kirkçeşme waterworks, the Büyükçekmece bridge and the Selimiye Mosque in Edirne. 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.
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 and Biographical Memoir of Buildings. The list excludes older mosques that Sinan renovated and those converted into Friday mosques from older community mosques.

Chronological list of Friday mosques

DateNameLocationDome diameterListed dependencies
c. 1537Shahsultan MosqueEyüp, Istanbulhipped roofnon-extant: dervish convent
1538/39–1540 Haseki Sultan MosqueHaseki, Istanbulmadrassa, hospital, elementary school
1538–39Çavuşbaşı or Sütlüce Mosque Sütlüce, Istanbulhipped roofnone
1541–42Tercüman Yunus Beg Mosque Balat, Istanbulhipped roofmadrasa
c. 1541–44Hadım Ali Pasha MosqueDiyarbakır, Turkeymadrasa
c. 1542–47Çukurcuma Mosque Tophane, Istanbulhipped roofnone
c. 1543Nişancı Mustafa Çelebi Mosque Eyüp, Istanbulprobably hipped roofnon-extant: bath-house
1543–44Osmanshah's mother Aksaray, Istanbulhipped roofnon-extant: madrasa
c. 1543/44–1548Mihrimah Sultan MosqueÜsküdar, Istanbulmadrasa; non-extant: hospice
1543–1548Şehzade MosqueŞehzadebası, Istanbulmausoleum, madrasa, hospice, elementary school, caravansarai
c. 1546–47Khusrawiyya Mosque Aleppo, Syriaapprox. madrasa
1547–48Sofu Mehmed Pasha Mosque now Sveti Sedmochislenitsi Church Sofia, Bulgarianone
1548–59Süleymaniye MosqueSüleymaniye, Istanbulfour madrasas, hadith college, medical college, Quran recitation school, hospital, hospice, caravansarai, bath-house, elementary school
1550–1552/53Rüstem Pasha MosqueTekirdağ, Turkeyhospice, madrasa; non-extant: caravansarai
c. 1550–57Takiyya al–Khassaki Sultan Mosque Jerusalemhospice; non-extant: madrasa
1551Hadim Ibrahim Pasha MosqueSilivrikapı, Istanbulmausoleum; non-extant: bath-house
1551–65Çerkes İskender Pasha MosqueDiyarbakır, Turkeyapprox. none
c. 1552–57Rüstem Pasha Mosque Sapanca, Turkeyhipped roofhospice, bath-house; non-extant: caravansarai
c. 1552Merkez Efendi Mosque Yenikapı, Istanbulhipped roofbath-house
c. 1552Tatar Khan or Juma-Jami MosqueYevpatoria, Ukrainenon-extant: mausoleum
1553–54Kapıağası Mahmud Agha Mosque Ahırkapı, Istanbulprobably hipped roofnon-extant: madrasa, mausoleum
1553–54Defterelar Ebulfaz Mehmed Efendi Mosque Tophane, Istanbulhipped roofnon-extant: mausoleum
1554–58/59Sulaymaniyya Takiyya MosqueDamascus, Syriahospice, madrasa
1554–55Kazasker Abdurrahman Çelebi Mosque Çapa, Istanbulhipped roofnon-extant: mausoleum
1554–55/56Sinan Pasha MosqueBeşiktaş, Istanbulmadrasa; non-extant: bath-house
1555, c. 1565–71/72Kara Ahmed Pasha MosqueTopkapı, Istanbulmadrasa, mausoleum
1556–65/66Al-Adiliyah MosqueAleppo, Syriaunknownnone
c. 1557–60Rüstem Pasha Mosque Samanlı probably hipped roofnon-extant: caravansarai
c. 1557–60Rüstem Pasha Mosque Bolu, Turkeyprobably hipped roofnon-extant: double caravansarai
1558Selimiye MosqueKonya
1557–58Karađoz Bey MosqueMostar, Bosnia and Herzegovinanone
1559–60Haseki Sultan Mosque Svilengrad, Bulgariahipped roofnon-extant: hospice
1559–60Cihangir Mosque Cihangir, Istanbulhipped roofnone
1559–60İskender Pasha Mosque Kanlıca, Istanbulhipped roofmausoleum; non-extant: madrasa, bath-house
1559–60Ferhad Pasha Mosque Kastamonu, Turkeyhipped roofnone
c. 1560/61–1562/63Hürrem Çavus MosqueKaragümrük, Istanbulhipped roofnone
1560–63/64Sultaniya MosqueKarapınar, Turkeyhospice, bath-house, caravansarai
c. 1661–65Semiz Ali Pasha MosqueMarmara Ereğlisihipped roofnone
c. 1561Rüstem Pasha Mosque Bolvadin, Turkeynone
c. 1561–63Rüstem Pasha MosqueTahtakale, Istanbulnone
c. 1563–70Mihrimah Sultan MosqueEdirnekapı, Istanbulmadrasa, bath–house
1562–63Ferruh Kethüda MosqueBalat, Istanbulhipped roofnone
1562–63Odabaşı Behruz Agha Mosque Şehremini, Istanbulhipped roofnon-extant: bath-house
c. 1562–63Binaemini Sinan Agha MosqueYenibahçe, Istanbulhipped roofnone
1562–63Lala Mustafa Pasha MosqueErzurum, Turkeynone
1565–69/70Sokollu Mehmed Pasha MosqueLüleburgaz, Turkeymadrasa; non-extant: hospice, caravansarai
c. 1565–73Piyale Pasha MosqueKasımpaşa, Istanbul6 × none
1565–66Cenabi Ahmed Pasha MosqueAnkara, Turkeynone
c. 1565–69/70Firdevs Pasha MosqueIsparta, Turkeynone
c. 1564/65–1572/73Behram Pasha MosqueDiyarbakır, Turkeynone
c. 1566–70Lala Hüseyin Pasha MosqueKütahya, Turkeynone
c. 1566–78Sokollu Mustafa Pasha Mosque Budapest, Hungaryunknownnon-extant: mausoleum
c. 1566/67–70Osman Shah MosqueTrikala, Greecenone
1567–68Köse Hüsrev Pasha MosqueVan, Turkeynon-extant: madrasa
1567–68Mevlana Efendi Mosque Üsküdar, Istanbulhipped roofnone
c. 1567/68–1571/72Sokollu Mehmed Pasha MosqueKadırgalimanı, Istanbulmadrasa, dervish convent
1567–74Sokollu Mehmed Pasha MosquePayas, Turkeyapprox. hospice, caravansarai
1568–74Selimiye MosqueEdirne, Turkeymadrasa, hadith college, Quran recitation school
c. 1569–74Defterdar Mustafa Çelebi Mosque Edirne, Turkeynone
c. 1569–75 Semiz Ali Pasha MosqueBabaeski, Turkeynon-extant: madrasa
1571–83 Atik Valide MosqueÜsküdar, Istanbulmadrasa, Quran recitation school, hospital, dervish convent, caravansarai, bath-house
c. 1570–84Molla Çelebi MosqueBeyoğlu, Istanbulnon-extant: bath-house
1570–71Murad Pasha Mosque Baghdad, Iraqunknownnone
1572–79/80Pertev Pasha Mosqueİzmit, Turkeynone
1573–77Sokollu Kasim Bey Mosque Havsa, Turkeyapprox. hospice, bath-house; non-extant: caravansarai
c. 1573–77/78Sokollu Mehmed Pasha MosqueAzapkapı, Istanbulbath-house
c. 1575–88Ferhad Pasha MosqueÇatalca, Turkeynone
c. 1576–85/86Haci Ahmed Pasha MosqueKayseri, Turkeynone
1577–90Zal Mahmud Pasha MosqueEyüp, Istanbulmausoleum, twin madrasas
1578–80/81Kılıç Ali Pasha MosqueTophane, Istanbulmausoleum, bath-house
1580–81Şemsi Pasha MosqueÜsküdar, Istanbulmausoleum, madrasa; non-extant: dervish convent
1583–86/87Muradiye MosqueManisa, Turkeyhospice
1584–85Mehmed Agha MosqueÇarşamba, Istanbulmausoleum
1584–85/86Mesih Mehmed Pasha MosqueHırka-i Şerif, Istanbulmausoleum
1584/85–88/89Nişancı Mehmed Pasha MosqueKaragümrük, Istanbulmausoleum
1585Hacı Evhad MosqueYedikule, Istanbulhipped roofnone
1585–86Ramazan Efendi MosqueKocamustafapaşa, Istanbulhipped roofnone
c. 1587–91Melek Ahmed Pasha MosqueDiyarbakır, Turkeynone