Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Mimar Sinan" in English language version.
(Sinan) He was born in Cappadocia, probably into a Greek Christian family. Drafted into the Janissaries during his adolescence, he rapidly gained promotion and distinction as a military engineer.
The greatest of all Muslim architects, Sinan ... was of Greek or Albanian Christian origin
Konyalı reports that Ağırnas was a Greek village with no Armenian inhabitants, and that before the Greeks evacuated the village a Greek family named Taşçıoğlu had claimed Sinan as a member of their own family.
… 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.
Mimar Sinan (1539–1588) is undoubtedly one of the greatest architects of the sixteenth century. He was not a Turk but a Greek from Cappadocia (or a Bulgarian from Shiroka Lăka, according to a local variant).
Sinan, also called Mimar Sinan ("Architect Sinan") or Mimar Koca Sinan ("Great Architect Sinan") (born c. 1490, Ağırnaz, Turkey—died July 17, 1588, Constantinople [now Istanbul]),
