Traditional Turkish Bath; Hamam

The tradition of the Turkish bath extends far back to a time before Turks had reached Anatolia. When the Turks arrived in Anatolia, they brought a bathing tradition with them, and were confronted with another, that of Romans and Byzantines, with certain local variants. The traditions merged, and with the addition of the Moslem concern for cleanliness and its concomitant respect for the uses of water, there arose an entirely new concept, “ The Turkish Bath. ” In time it became an institution, with its system of ineradicable customs.

For the Turks, the bath was much
more than just a place to cleanse
the skin. It was intimately bound up
with everyday life, a place where
people of every rank and station,
young and old, rich and poor,
townsman or villager, could enter
freely. Women as well as men made
use of the " hamam", as the bath is
known in Turkish, although of
course at separate hours or in a separate building.

To learn more about hamam’s and hamam terms like pestamal, tas, nalin, kese and etc., we invite you to take one of our
special programs where you can enjoy the hamam and experience everything that lies within it...