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
| Date | Name | Location | Dome diameter | Listed dependencies |
| c. 1537 | Shahsultan Mosque | Eyüp, Istanbul | hipped roof | non-extant: dervish convent |
| 1538/39–1540 | Haseki Sultan Mosque | Haseki, Istanbul | madrassa, hospital, elementary school | |
| 1538–39 | Çavuşbaşı or Sütlüce Mosque | Sütlüce, Istanbul | hipped roof | none |
| 1541–42 | Tercüman Yunus Beg Mosque | Balat, Istanbul | hipped roof | madrasa |
| c. 1541–44 | Hadım Ali Pasha Mosque | Diyarbakır, Turkey | madrasa | |
| c. 1542–47 | Çukurcuma Mosque | Tophane, Istanbul | hipped roof | none |
| c. 1543 | Nişancı Mustafa Çelebi Mosque | Eyüp, Istanbul | probably hipped roof | non-extant: bath-house |
| 1543–44 | Osmanshah's mother | Aksaray, Istanbul | hipped roof | non-extant: madrasa |
| c. 1543/44–1548 | Mihrimah Sultan Mosque | Üsküdar, Istanbul | madrasa; non-extant: hospice | |
| 1543–1548 | Şehzade Mosque | Şehzadebası, Istanbul | mausoleum, madrasa, hospice, elementary school, caravansarai | |
| c. 1546–47 | Khusrawiyya Mosque | Aleppo, Syria | approx. | madrasa |
| 1547–48 | Sofu Mehmed Pasha Mosque now Sveti Sedmochislenitsi Church | Sofia, Bulgaria | none | |
| 1548–59 | Süleymaniye Mosque | Süleymaniye, Istanbul | four madrasas, hadith college, medical college, Quran recitation school, hospital, hospice, caravansarai, bath-house, elementary school | |
| 1550–1552/53 | Rüstem Pasha Mosque | Tekirdağ, Turkey | hospice, madrasa; non-extant: caravansarai | |
| c. 1550–57 | Takiyya al–Khassaki Sultan Mosque | Jerusalem | hospice; non-extant: madrasa | |
| 1551 | Hadim Ibrahim Pasha Mosque | Silivrikapı, Istanbul | mausoleum; non-extant: bath-house | |
| 1551–65 | Çerkes İskender Pasha Mosque | Diyarbakır, Turkey | approx. | none |
| c. 1552–57 | Rüstem Pasha Mosque | Sapanca, Turkey | hipped roof | hospice, bath-house; non-extant: caravansarai |
| c. 1552 | Merkez Efendi Mosque | Yenikapı, Istanbul | hipped roof | bath-house |
| c. 1552 | Tatar Khan or Juma-Jami Mosque | Yevpatoria, Ukraine | non-extant: mausoleum | |
| 1553–54 | Kapıağası Mahmud Agha Mosque | Ahırkapı, Istanbul | probably hipped roof | non-extant: madrasa, mausoleum |
| 1553–54 | Defterelar Ebulfaz Mehmed Efendi Mosque | Tophane, Istanbul | hipped roof | non-extant: mausoleum |
| 1554–58/59 | Sulaymaniyya Takiyya Mosque | Damascus, Syria | hospice, madrasa | |
| 1554–55 | Kazasker Abdurrahman Çelebi Mosque | Çapa, Istanbul | hipped roof | non-extant: mausoleum |
| 1554–55/56 | Sinan Pasha Mosque | Beşiktaş, Istanbul | madrasa; non-extant: bath-house | |
| 1555, c. 1565–71/72 | Kara Ahmed Pasha Mosque | Topkapı, Istanbul | madrasa, mausoleum | |
| 1556–65/66 | Al-Adiliyah Mosque | Aleppo, Syria | unknown | none |
| c. 1557–60 | Rüstem Pasha Mosque | Samanlı | probably hipped roof | non-extant: caravansarai |
| c. 1557–60 | Rüstem Pasha Mosque | Bolu, Turkey | probably hipped roof | non-extant: double caravansarai |
| 1558 | Selimiye Mosque | Konya | ||
| 1557–58 | Karađoz Bey Mosque | Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina | none | |
| 1559–60 | Haseki Sultan Mosque | Svilengrad, Bulgaria | hipped roof | non-extant: hospice |
| 1559–60 | Cihangir Mosque | Cihangir, Istanbul | hipped roof | none |
| 1559–60 | İskender Pasha Mosque | Kanlıca, Istanbul | hipped roof | mausoleum; non-extant: madrasa, bath-house |
| 1559–60 | Ferhad Pasha Mosque | Kastamonu, Turkey | hipped roof | none |
| c. 1560/61–1562/63 | Hürrem Çavus Mosque | Karagümrük, Istanbul | hipped roof | none |
| 1560–63/64 | Sultaniya Mosque | Karapınar, Turkey | hospice, bath-house, caravansarai | |
| c. 1661–65 | Semiz Ali Pasha Mosque | Marmara Ereğlisi | hipped roof | none |
| c. 1561 | Rüstem Pasha Mosque | Bolvadin, Turkey | none | |
| c. 1561–63 | Rüstem Pasha Mosque | Tahtakale, Istanbul | none | |
| c. 1563–70 | Mihrimah Sultan Mosque | Edirnekapı, Istanbul | madrasa, bath–house | |
| 1562–63 | Ferruh Kethüda Mosque | Balat, Istanbul | hipped roof | none |
| 1562–63 | Odabaşı Behruz Agha Mosque | Şehremini, Istanbul | hipped roof | non-extant: bath-house |
| c. 1562–63 | Binaemini Sinan Agha Mosque | Yenibahçe, Istanbul | hipped roof | none |
| 1562–63 | Lala Mustafa Pasha Mosque | Erzurum, Turkey | none | |
| 1565–69/70 | Sokollu Mehmed Pasha Mosque | Lüleburgaz, Turkey | madrasa; non-extant: hospice, caravansarai | |
| c. 1565–73 | Piyale Pasha Mosque | Kasımpaşa, Istanbul | 6 × | none |
| 1565–66 | Cenabi Ahmed Pasha Mosque | Ankara, Turkey | none | |
| c. 1565–69/70 | Firdevs Pasha Mosque | Isparta, Turkey | none | |
| c. 1564/65–1572/73 | Behram Pasha Mosque | Diyarbakır, Turkey | none | |
| c. 1566–70 | Lala Hüseyin Pasha Mosque | Kütahya, Turkey | none | |
| c. 1566–78 | Sokollu Mustafa Pasha Mosque | Budapest, Hungary | unknown | non-extant: mausoleum |
| c. 1566/67–70 | Osman Shah Mosque | Trikala, Greece | none | |
| 1567–68 | Köse Hüsrev Pasha Mosque | Van, Turkey | non-extant: madrasa | |
| 1567–68 | Mevlana Efendi Mosque | Üsküdar, Istanbul | hipped roof | none |
| c. 1567/68–1571/72 | Sokollu Mehmed Pasha Mosque | Kadırgalimanı, Istanbul | madrasa, dervish convent | |
| 1567–74 | Sokollu Mehmed Pasha Mosque | Payas, Turkey | approx. | hospice, caravansarai |
| 1568–74 | Selimiye Mosque | Edirne, Turkey | madrasa, hadith college, Quran recitation school | |
| c. 1569–74 | Defterdar Mustafa Çelebi Mosque | Edirne, Turkey | none | |
| c. 1569–75 | Semiz Ali Pasha Mosque | Babaeski, Turkey | non-extant: madrasa | |
| 1571–83 | Atik Valide Mosque | Üsküdar, Istanbul | madrasa, Quran recitation school, hospital, dervish convent, caravansarai, bath-house | |
| c. 1570–84 | Molla Çelebi Mosque | Beyoğlu, Istanbul | non-extant: bath-house | |
| 1570–71 | Murad Pasha Mosque | Baghdad, Iraq | unknown | none |
| 1572–79/80 | Pertev Pasha Mosque | İzmit, Turkey | none | |
| 1573–77 | Sokollu Kasim Bey Mosque | Havsa, Turkey | approx. | hospice, bath-house; non-extant: caravansarai |
| c. 1573–77/78 | Sokollu Mehmed Pasha Mosque | Azapkapı, Istanbul | bath-house | |
| c. 1575–88 | Ferhad Pasha Mosque | Çatalca, Turkey | none | |
| c. 1576–85/86 | Haci Ahmed Pasha Mosque | Kayseri, Turkey | none | |
| 1577–90 | Zal Mahmud Pasha Mosque | Eyüp, Istanbul | mausoleum, twin madrasas | |
| 1578–80/81 | Kılıç Ali Pasha Mosque | Tophane, Istanbul | mausoleum, bath-house | |
| 1580–81 | Şemsi Pasha Mosque | Üsküdar, Istanbul | mausoleum, madrasa; non-extant: dervish convent | |
| 1583–86/87 | Muradiye Mosque | Manisa, Turkey | hospice | |
| 1584–85 | Mehmed Agha Mosque | Çarşamba, Istanbul | mausoleum | |
| 1584–85/86 | Mesih Mehmed Pasha Mosque | Hırka-i Şerif, Istanbul | mausoleum | |
| 1584/85–88/89 | Nişancı Mehmed Pasha Mosque | Karagümrük, Istanbul | mausoleum | |
| 1585 | Hacı Evhad Mosque | Yedikule, Istanbul | hipped roof | none |
| 1585–86 | Ramazan Efendi Mosque | Kocamustafapaşa, Istanbul | hipped roof | none |
| c. 1587–91 | Melek Ahmed Pasha Mosque | Diyarbakır, Turkey | none |