Hamam
Turkish baths are mainly divided into three parts:
Dressing areas
Bathing places:
Cold,
Hamam (Temperature);
Heating place (Külhan)
Changing places
There is a large sofa and partitioned benches around it. The bathers lie down and rest on these benches.
Washing places
It is called the part of the bath entered by passing through the coldness. This is also divided into some sections: Kurna başı, where everyone washes one by one, and halvet, closed and solitary bathing cells. There is also a belly stone on which sweat is poured. This place was built higher than the marble-covered floor of the bath and could be of various geometric shapes.
Heating place - ashan
It is underneath the hammam, where the fire burns. The flame and smoke rising from the fire passes through special paths under the marble floor, through the walls and exits through the chimney called tüteklik.
There is a hot water boiler above the furnace and a cold water tank above it. Several channels at the bottom of the hearth extend under the belly stone in the center of the bath's bathing place. The powerful flames and smoke of the wood burning in the hearth go under the belly stone through these channels. Since the dark place under this stone gets very hot, it is called hell.
Bazaar baths are open to women on certain days of the week and to men on other days. The double baths are two adjacent baths, one for women and one for men. These baths are open every day.
The baths of Istanbul are recognized all over the world. Bayezit, Çe
