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 (ruled 1520–66), Selim II (ruled 1566–74) and Murad III (ruled 1574–95). 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). 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 (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.
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). 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 dependenciesc. 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 (extensively rebuilt) Sütlüce, Istanbul hipped roof none 1541–42 Tercüman Yunus Beg Mosque (extensively rebuilt) Balat, Istanbul hipped roof madrasa c. 1541–44 Hadım Ali Pasha Mosque Diyarbakır, Turkey madrasa c. 1542–47 Çukurcuma Mosque (completely rebuilt) Tophane, Istanbul hipped roof none c. 1543 Nişancı Mustafa Çelebi Mosque (completely rebuilt) Eyüp, Istanbul probably hipped roof non-extant: bath-house 1543–44 Osmanshah's mother (non-extant) 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 (heavily damaged during civil war) Aleppo, Syria approx. madrasa 1547–48 Sofu Mehmed Pasha Mosque now Sveti Sedmochislenitsi Church (converted to a church in early 20th century) 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 (partly extant; see Haseki Sultan Imaret) 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 (completely rebuilt) Sapanca, Turkey hipped roof hospice, bath-house; non-extant: caravansarai c. 1552 Merkez Efendi Mosque (completely rebuilt) Yenikapı, Istanbul hipped roof bath-house c. 1552 Tatar Khan or Juma-Jami Mosque Yevpatoria, Crimea, Ukraine non-extant: mausoleum 1553–54 Kapıağası Mahmud Agha Mosque (extensively rebuilt) Ahırkapı, Istanbul probably hipped roof non-extant: madrasa, mausoleum 1553–54 Defterelar Ebulfaz Mehmed Efendi Mosque (non-extant) Tophane, Istanbul hipped roof non-extant: mausoleum 1554–58/59 Sulaymaniyya Takiyya Mosque Damascus, Syria hospice, madrasa 1554–55 Kazasker Abdurrahman Çelebi Mosque (non-extant) Çapa, Istanbul hipped roof non-extant: mausoleum 1554–55/56 Sinan Pasha Mosque Beşiktaş, Istanbul madrasa; non-extant: bath-house 1555 (planned), 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 (non-extant) Samanlı (now Yalova) probably hipped roof non-extant: caravansarai c. 1557–60 Rüstem Pasha Mosque (non-extant) Bolu, Turkey probably hipped roof non-extant: double caravansarai1558 Selimiye Mosque Konya (Architect was probably Sinan) 1557–58 Karađoz Bey Mosque Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina none 1559–60 Haseki Sultan Mosque (non-extant) Svilengrad, Bulgaria hipped roof non-extant: hospice 1559–60 Cihangir Mosque (completely rebuilt) Cihangir, Istanbul hipped roof none 1559–60 İskender Pasha Mosque (extensively rebuilt) Kanlıca, Istanbul hipped roof mausoleum; non-extant: madrasa, bath-house 1559–60 Ferhad Pasha Mosque (extensively rebuilt) 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 (extensively renovated) 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 (extensively rebuilt) 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 (non-extant) 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 (completely rebuilt) 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 (dome rebuilt) Edirne, Turkey none c. 1569–75 (1585–86 portico and courtyard) Semiz Ali Pasha Mosque Babaeski, Turkey non-extant: madrasa 1571–83 (expanded 1584–85/86) 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 (extensively renovated) Baghdad, Iraq unknown none 1572–79/80 Pertev Pasha Mosque İzmit, Turkey none 1573–77 Sokollu Kasim Bey Mosque (missing portico) 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
See also List of mosques commissioned by the Ottoman dynasty
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