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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 ...

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Hammams were central to Ottoman society for centuries before the advent of running water led to them falling out of use in Turkey. Now, many are being restored to revive an ancient bathing tradition.

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 ...

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 ...

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