List of Turkish architects

The following is a list of Turkish architects in alphabetical order. Some of their major architectural works are listed after each name.

B

Krikor Amira Balyan (1764 – 1831)
* Sarayburnu Palace (burned 1875)
* Beşiktaş Palace
* Çırağan Palace (was burned by the Janissaries)
* Arnavutköy Valide Sultan Palace
* Defterdar Sultan Palace
* Aynalıkavak Pavilion
* Tophane Nusretiye Mosque (1823 - 1826)
* Selimiye Barracks (1800, burnt 1807)
* Davutpaşa Barracks (1826 - 1827)
* Beyoğlu Barracks
* İstanbul Mint
* Valide Dam
* Topuzlu Dam
* Fire Kiosk(all in İstanbul)

Senekerim Balyan (1768 – 1833)
* Beyazıt Fire Tower (1826)
* Ortaköy Surp Asdvadzazdin Armenian Church (1824)(all in İstanbul)

Garabet Amira Balyan (1800 – 1866)
* Dolmabahçe Palace, together with Nigoğayos Balyan (1848 - 1856)
* New Çırağan Palace
* Yeşilköy Hünkar Kiosk
* Old Yıldız Palace
* Ortaköy Mosque, together with Nigoğayos Balyan (1854)
* Armenian Hospital
* Beşiktaş Surp Asdvadzazin Armenian Church (1834)
* Kuruçeşme Surp Nişan Armenian Church (1834)
* Beyoğlu Surp Yerrortutyun Church (1838)
* Kumkapı Surp Asdvadzazin Church
* Academy of Fine Arts (former cannon forming) building in Tophane
* Fındıklı Cemile and Münire Sultan Palaces, today the Mimar Sinan University (1856 - 1859)
* İzmit Hünkar Palace, İzmit
* Academy of War
* Mausoleum of Mahmut II with fountain (1840)
* Bakırköy textile factory
* Beykoz tannery (1842)
* Hereke textile factory, Hereke (1843)
* Armenian hospital (1832 – 1834)(all in İstanbul, except as designated otherwise)

Nigoğayos Balyan (1826 – 1856)
* Ihlamur Pavilion
* Küçüksu Pavilion
* Dolmabahçe Mosque, aka Bezm-i Alem Valide Sultan Mosque (1852 – 1854)
* Ortaköy Mosque, together with Garabet Amira Balyan (1854)
* Tophane Clock Tower
* Validebağ Adile Sultan Pavilion(all in İstanbul)

Sarkis Balyan (1835 – 1899)
* Beylerbeyi Palace, together with his father Garabet Balyan (1861 - 1865)
* Beşiktaş Makruhyan Armenian Primary School (1866) (dedicated to the memory of his young died wife Makruhi)
* Çırağan Palace (1863 - 1871)
* Valide Mosque, together with brother Hagop Balyan (1871),
* Zeytinburnu Gunpowder Factory (1874),
* Beşiktaş-Akaretler 138 Terraced Houses (construction began 1874)
* Ministry of War, the main building of Istanbul Technical University today
* Palace School of Medicine, Galatasaray High School today
* Maçka Arsenal, Faculty of Mining of the İstanbul Technical University today
* Malta Kiosk
* Baltalimanı Coastal Palace
* Old kiosk on Galatasaray islet(all in İstanbul)

Hagop Balyan (1838 – 1875)

Simon Balyan (?-1894)

Levon Balyan (1855 - ?)

D

Vedat Dalokay (1927 - 1991)
* Islamic Summit Minar (1977)
* Faisal Mosque (1986)
* Kocatepe Mosque (1987) (first project)

K

Mimar Kasım (1570 - 1659)
* Bagdad Kiosk
* Revan Kiosk
* Kiosk in faience
* Spice Bazaar(all in İstanbul)

Mimar Sinan (1489 - 1588)
* Şehzade Mosque (1548)
* Selimiye Mosque, Edirne
* Suleiman Mosque (1550 - 1557)
* Rüstem Pasha Mosque
* Kadirga Sokullu Mosque
* Taqiyya al-Sulaimaniyya khan and mosque, Damascus(all in İstanbul, except designated otherwise)

He constructed numerous buildings as following:
*84 great mosques ("cami"),
*57 universities,
*52 smaller mosques ("mescit"),
*41 bath-houses ("hamam").
*35 palaces ("saray"),
*22 mausoleums ("türbe"),
*20 Caravanserai
*17 public kitchens ("imaret"),
*8 bridges,
*8 store houses and
*7 schools ("medrese"),
*6 aqueducts,
*3 hospitals ("darüşşifa")

ee also

* List of architects