Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "معمار سنان" in Arabic language version.
...was Sinan the Old-he lived to be about ninety-an Armenian from Anatolia who had been brought to the capital as one of the 'gathered'.
The architect Sinan, perhaps of Armenian descent, raised mosques and other buildings all over the Turkish Empire.
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… the fame of the leading Ottoman architect, Sinan, having reached his ears, he is reported to have invited certain pupils of this Albanian genius to India to carry out his architectural schemes.
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They are many of them designed by Sinan, who is said to have been an Armenian
… the fame of the leading Ottoman architect, Sinan, having reached his ears, he is reported to have invited certain pupils of this Albanian genius to India to carry out his architectural schemes.