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The star-shape openings in the domed bathhouse ceiling and graffiti in its cistern were among its inspirations. By Susanne Fowler Reporting from Istanbul See more of our coverage in your search ...

The Zeyrek Cinili Hammam in Istanbul, built 500 years ago during the reign of Suleiman the Magnificent by the Ottoman architect Mimar Sinan, has reopened after a meticulous 13-year restoration project ...

The Turkish bath may date back to the Romans but it was the Ottoman Turks who truly made the tradition their own, adorning their great capital on the Bosphorus with about 15,000 often majestic bath ...

For centuries, pleasure combined with practicality in the hammams, or bathhouses, of Istanbul, where everyone from the humblest worker to the sultan himself regularly kept clean by indulging in the ...

Simply sign up to the House & Home myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Broken traditional Iznik tiles, old Byzantine column capitals, a perfectly preserved coffee cup. When Koza Yazgan ...

From Sept. 15 to Oct. 13, the oldest Ottoman Turkish bath of Istanbul, Küçük Mustafa Paşa Hamamı (1477), will host “Water. Like Tears of Love,” the site-specific installation by Roman artist Angelo ...

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