VISIT WEB SITE OF FAMOUS TURKISH ARCHITECT SINAN by neodue
If you go to Istanbul ,you can see the a lots of Mosque in the City.One of the best is SULEYMANIYE and SEHZADE and hundreds of monument around Ottoman Empire.This website is respect for the SINAN
Ḳoca Mi?mār Sinān Āġā (April 15, 1489 - July 17, 1588) was the chief Ottoman architect for sultans Selim I, Suleiman I, Selim II and Murad III. He was, during a period of fifty years, responsible for the construction or the supervision of every major building in the Ottoman Empire. More than three hundred structures are credited to his name, exclusive of his more modest projects, such as his Koran schools (sibyan mektebs).
His masterpiece is the Selimiye Mosque in Edirne, although his most famous work is the Suleiman Mosque in Istanbul. He had under him an extensive governmental department and trained many assistants who, in turn, distinguished themselves, including Sedefhar Mehmet Ağa, architect of the Sultan Ahmed Mosque. He is considered the greatest architect of the classical period, and is often compared to Michelangelo as a Western contemporary. The stature of Michelangelo and his plans for St Peter's Basilica in Rome were well-known in Istanbul, since he (and also Leonardo da Vinci) received an invitation to build a bridge over the Bosphorus.
He was born form a christian family. (greek or armenian)this is not clear and he was joined
janissaries and growned up as a muslim soldier.He initially learned carpentry and mathematics but through his intellectual qualities and
ambitions, he soon assisted the leading architects and got his training as an architect.
Three years later he became a skilled architect and engineer. During this time, he was also trained as a cadet (acemioğlan) over six years before being admitted to the brotherhood of Janissaries.
A foundation build that web site
http://www.sinanasaygi.com/en/index.asp respect to sinan and you can see some of the monuments which he has build.