Koca Sinan is a distinguished architect, worked for the Ottoman king, Sultan Süleyman. All
works inspired by the domed basilica of Hagia Sophia. Sinan has handled the great piers and
necessary buttressing so as to minimise the apparent bulk of masonry Sinan’s final major work, built for Selim II. This mosque is essentially a single dome supported
on 8 great piers and braced by external buttress. The dome size also defeated Hagia Sophia There are no semi-domes. Arches connecting these pier support the dome, which rises above
ranks of windows pierced in the exterior wall