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, built by Sinan in 1575 . Edirne , Turkey .]] Koca Mimar Sinan Agha ( April 15 , 1489 - July 17 , 1588 ) was the Ottoman chief architect for sultans Selim I , Suleiman I , Selim II and Murad III . His masterpiece is the Selimiye Mosque in Edirne , although his most famous work is the Suleiman Mosque in Istanbul . Sinan was born a Christian in , he was conscripted into Ottoman service and he went to Istanbul as a recruit and converted to Islam under the Devshirme system. He served the Grand Vizier İbrahim Paşa as a novice of the Palace School. There he was given the Islamic name Sinan. Three years later he, a skilled architect and engineer, took part in Selim's military campaigns into the east as part of the engineering corps. When the Ottoman army captured Cairo , Sinan was promoted to chief architect and was given the privilege of tearing down any buildings in the captured city that were not according to the city plan. He was also appointed commander of an infantry division, but was, at his own request, transferred to the command of the artillery instead. During a Persia n campaign in 1535 he built ships for the army to cross Lake Van . For this he was given the title ''Haseki'i'', Sergeant-at-Arms in the body guard of the Sultan, a rank equivalent to that of the Janissary Ağa. Sinan's first work was the Şehzade Mosque, which he built in 1548 . He started building the Süleymaniye Mosque in 1550 , with construction completed in 1557 . Before Süleymaniye, no mosques had been built with half cubic roofs. He get the idea of half cubic roof design from the Hagia Sophia . He also built many mosques and other buildings in and around Istanbul, including the Selimiye Mosque in Edirne , Rüstem Pasha Mosque in Istanbul and Kadirga Sokullu Mosque in Istanbul. He also designed the Taqiyya Al-Sulaimaniyya Khan and mosque in Damascus , still considered one of the city's most notable monuments, as well as the Banya Bashi Mosque in Sofia , Bulgaria , currently the only functioning mosque in the city. Sinan is said to have constructed and founded
He died in 1588 and is buried in a tomb just outside the walls of the Süleymaniye Mosque to the north, across a street named Mimar Sinan Caddesi in his honour. He is also honored with a crater on Mercury named after him (see List Of Craters On Mercury ). BOOKS
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