Sitwell, Sacheverell.(1939) Old Fashioned Flowers.Country Life,p. [htt://archive.org/details/oldfashionedflow00sitw/e/n93 74].“The architect Sinan, perhaps of Armenian descent, raised mosques and other buildings all over the Turkish Empire.”.
Goodwin, Godfrey.(1971) A history of Ottoman architecture.Johns Hopkins Press,p. [htt://archive.org/details/historyofottoman0000good/e/199 199]. ISBN 978-0-8018-1202-6.“He came from the district of Karaman and the Greek lands, but he does not, it is true, specifically call himself a Greek, which, in effect, he no longer was from the moment that he admitted that there was no other God but Allah. Yet after the conquest of Cyprus in 1571, when Selim decided to repopulate the island by transferring Greek families from the Karaman beylik, Sinan intervened on behalf of his family and obtained two orders from the Sultan in council exempting them from deportation. It was Selim I who ordered the first devsirme levy in Anatolia in 1512 and sent Yaya- basis to Karamania and this is probably the year in which Sinan came to Istanbul. Since he was born about 1491, or at the latest in 1492, he was old for a devsirme…”.
Rogers, J. M..(2006) Sinan.I.B.Tauris,p. backcover. ISBN 978-1-84511-096-3.“(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.”.
(1916)“Armenia, her culture and aspirations”, Journal of Race Development7, p. pp. 457–458.“It was an Armenian architect, Sinan, who designed and built the famous Mosque of Adrianople, and the Mosque of Suleyman in Constantinople...”.
al-Lubnānī lil-Dirāsāt, Markaz.(1992) The Beirut review, Issue 3.Lebanese Center for Policy Studies,p. 113.
Brown, Percy.(1942) Indian architecture: (The Islamic period).Taraporevala Sons,p. 94.“… 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.”.
Akgündüz Ahmed & Öztürk Said, (2011), Ottoman History, Misperfections and Truths, IUR Press (Islamitische Universiteit Rotterdam), Paĝo 196, rete. Citita el la libro: "According to yet another view, Sinan came from a Christian Turkish family, whose father's name was Abdulmennan and his grandfather's Doğan Yusuf."
