Koca Sinan Pasha Foundations: Purpose of Establishment, Functionality, and Its Analysis in Terms of Employment

It is known that in the Ottoman State many services were rendered by the foundations and these foundations were established particularly by the leading administrators of the state. The Grand Vizier Koca Sinan Pasha has spent a great portion of his wealth for the charitable institutions he founded on various locations of the Ottoman land. Having a look through the vakfiyes he had prepared for his foundations, each of which are books approximately a hundred pages long, it can be seen that Sinan Pasha has founded charitable institutions in cities like Damascus, Cairo, Yenişehir, Malkara, Istanbul and Kaçanik, and donated a great deal of movable and immovable wealth for these foundations. Sinan Pasha who in these cities established religious institutions like Mosques, dervish lodges, and prayer houses, educational institutions like schools and madrasas, and social charitable institutions like ribats, imarets, inns, baths and fountains explained in his vakfiyes how these foundations were to work an whom and how to benefit from them. Especially from his vakfiye for the imaret it is possible to get the specifics for the services rendered and conditions for benefiting from them.