Mimar Armen Sinanian

[phantom22]

The original records state that Sinan (Hovsep) was from the village of Aghernass, near Kayseri.

 

 

Sinan's real name was Hovsep (Joseph). He was born in Kayseri on April 15, 1489 and his close relatives all had Armenian names. This is documented, from Ottoman archival materials, in an article in the "Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society" of Great Britain, dated 1937.

[Vartan Mamigonian]

The original records state that Sinan (Hovsep) was from the village of Aghernass, near Kayseri.

 

Since when do we accept Ottoman archival materials as original records?

[phantom22]

When they document the identity of Sinan as an Armenian. You would think they would want to bury thgat information.

 

Since when do we accept Ottoman archival materials as original records?

[Vartan Mamigonian]

Very well-stated, very observant, and right on point.

[Yervant1]

TURKISH MEDIA FINDS ATTEMPTS TO CONCEAL NATIONALITY OF ARMENIAN ARCHITECT SINAN DISGRACEFUL

 

14:57, 10 April, 2013

 

YEREVAN, APRIL 10, ARMENPRESS. Turkish website marksist.org touched

upon the issue of nationality of prominent Armenian medieval architect

of the Ottoman Empire Sinan and stated that nobody tells anything

about the Armenian identity of the famous architect, of whom both

the Ottomans and the Turks were proud about.

 

As reports "Armenpress" the website stated that the chief architect

of the medieval period of the Ottoman Empire Sinan was born in an

Armenian family in a small town called Agırnas near the city of

Kayseri in Anatolia. At the age of 22 Sinan was conscripted into

Ottoman service as a son of Christian. He is the first Armenian,

upon whom the title of ***** was bestowed.

 

Among other things the Turkish website stated: "Nobody was worried

about Sinan's Armenian origin in the Ottoman Empire. But after the

establishment of the Republic of Turkey the Turkish "scientists",

who suffer the complex of inferiority, opened his tomb to discover

whether he was a Turk or not."

 

Sinân Ã~Bgâ was the chief Ottoman architect (Turkish: "Mimar")

and civil engineer for sultans Suleiman the Magnificent, Selim II,

and Murad III. He was responsible for the construction of more than

three hundred major structures and other more modest projects, such

as his Islamic primary schools. His apprentices would later design

the Sultan Ahmed Mosque in Istanbul, Stari Most in Mostar and help

design the Taj Mahal in the Mughal Empire.

 

The son of a stonemason, he received a technical education and

became a military engineer. He rose rapidly through the ranks to

become first an officer and finally a Janissary commander, with the

honorific title of aga. He refined his architectural and engineering

skills while on campaign with the Janissaries, becoming expert

at constructing fortifications of all kinds, as well as military

infrastructure projects, such as roads, bridges and aqueducts. At

about the age of fifty, he was appointed as chief royal architect,

applying the technical skills he had acquired in the army to the

"creation of fine religious buildings" and civic structures of all

kinds. He remained in post for almost fifty years.

 

His masterpiece is the Selimiye Mosque in Edirne, although his most

famous work is the Suleiman Mosque in Istanbul. He headed an extensive

governmental department and trained many assistants who, in turn,

distinguished themselves, including Sedefkar Mehmed Agha, architect of

the Sultan Ahmed Mosque. He is considered the greatest architect of

the classical period of Ottoman architecture, and has been compared

to Michelangelo, his contemporary in the West. Michelangelo and his

plans for St. Peter's Basilica in Rome were well known in Istanbul,

since Leonardo da Vinci and he had been invited, in 1502 and 1505

respectively, by the Sublime Porte to submit plans for a bridge

spanning the Golden Horn.