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A hammam (Arabic: حمّام, romanized: ḥammām), also often called a Turkish bath by Westerners, [1] is a type of steam bath or a place of public bathing associated with the Islamic world. It is a prominent feature in the culture of the Muslim world and was inherited from the model of the Roman thermae.
They are a prominent feature in the culture of the Muslim world and was inherited from the model of the Roman thermae. Muslim bathhouses or hammams were historically found across the Middle East , North Africa , al-Andalus (Islamic Spain and Portugal ), Central Asia , the Indian subcontinent , and in Southeastern Europe under Ottoman rule .
To date, it retains many of the key elements of a Hammam, exemplified by its Ottoman dome and octagonal pool. It is located at Döbrentei tér 9 on the Buda side of Erzsébet Bridge. The bath has six therapy pools and one swimming pool where the temperature is in between 10 and 42 °C (50 and 108 °F).
The baths were constructed in the 10th century under the reign of Caliph Al-Hakam II (961–976) to serve the inhabitants of his palace. [2] [3] Bathhouses (hammams) of this type were a common feature of Muslim cities across the Muslim world, serving both a social and religious purpose.
Hammamat became the major route from Thebes to the Red Sea and then to the Silk Road that led to Asia, or to Arabia and the horn of Africa. This 200 km journey was the most direct route from the Nile to the Red Sea, as the Nile bends toward the coast at the western end of the wadi.
Hammam, a steam bath used for centuries throughout the Islamic world for personal cleansing and socialising. Victorian Turkish baths, which use hot dry air, came into use in 1856 in the British Isles as a therapy, for personal cleansing, and socialising. In Japan, toruko-buro 'Turkish bath' were brothels; they have been renamed soapland
Public baths include bathhouses, hammams, and Turkish baths.Public baths contain facilities such as baths, hot tubs (with or without underwater massage jets), showers, swimming pools, massage tables, steam rooms, saunas, and hot-air baths.
The Hammam as-Saffarin (or Saffarin Hammam, Hammam Seffarine, etc.) is a historic hammam in the medina (old city) of Fes, Morocco. It is located on the southwest side of Place Seffarine , across from the Madrasa Saffarin and south of the Qarawiyyin Mosque .