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Ali Gholi Agha hammam, Isfahan, Iran. 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.
Inside the hot room (bayt al-harara) of the hammam. The Hammam of Sultan Inal is a historic hammam (public bathhouse) in Cairo, Egypt. It is located in the Bayn al-Qasrayn area, on al-Mu'izz street, in the historic center of Cairo. The hammam was commissioned by Sultan Inal and built in 1456, during the Mamluk period.
Interior. Sultan Amir Ahmad Bathhouse (Persian: حمام سلطان امیر احمد, romanized: Hammam-e Sultan Amir Ahmad), also known as the Qasemi Bathhouse, is a traditional Iranian public bathhouse in Kashan, Iran.
The Sülemaniye Hamam is a traditional bathhouse consisting of three sections: cold, lukewarm and hot. Temperatures in the hot section can reach 40–60 °C (104–140 °F) degrees. A private cubicle said to have been used by Sinan when he lived near the mosque complex from 1557 to 1588 is still preserved.
Cağaloğlu is a double hamam with separate sections for men and women. [1] The layout follows the long-established traditional form for hamams, though the architectural details and decoration reflect the later Ottoman Baroque style of the 18th century.
The hammam was also involved in other cleanliness rituals and traditions associated with weddings, childbirths, and circumcision. [8] Newlyweds come to the hammam for washing and prayer and have a special corner reserved for them where they light candles. [3] Women who have given birth also come to the hammam to receive a special massage. [3]
Hammam has deeply spiritual roots, but contemporary treatments commonly involve a progression from a cold room to progressively warmer surroundings, depending upon the spa you visit.
The hamam or Turkish bath house is in the urban fabric (Kızılmurat neighborhood), within the Tarsus district of the Mersin Province in Turkey.. The bath house was built on the foundations of an older Roman bath by the Ramazanids, a beylik, which was sovereign between the 14th and 16th centuries.