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The American Man: A Sunday Morning at the Bath House

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Hamam, Or Turkish Baths, Are a Great Place For Gay Men to Relax and Join Others

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I have traveled to many cities in Turkey, where I was born and raised. I saw different cultures and discovered new places. Undoubtedly, one of the best and most important aspects of of the culture was the Turkish bath or hamam. So what is hamam?

The history of the hamam dates back to the ancient Romans. Specially designed scorching and cold moisture baths, designed for washing, were essential structures of the Ottoman period. Every sultan had their own. The most important hamams are those by Mimar Sinan, who was one of the finest Turkish architects. Baths are similar to mosques in terms of architecture. For example, both feature a central dome.

Massage is a central part of the ritual surrounding the Turkish bath, to relax and polish the body. According to Islam; no one can come in the water into which a body enters, because it is cont

Five Hammams in 24 Hours

A waterlogged Canadian takes a very specific tour of Istanbul.

I spent five days in Turkey a few weeks before the referendum, wandering through the city under posters and massive banners of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. But at the time, I wasn’t focused on politics: I was interested in the hammams, or Turkish baths.

The history of public baths in the West stretches at least as far back as the Spartans, who first used blazing stones and then coal fires to turn the rehearse of leaping into ice-cold water into something a minute more luxurious. Enjoy so many Greek innovations, the Romans tweaked and expanded and perfected the practice. Thermae, as the bathing was known, were a secular ritual the remained at the heart of Roman culture for a thousand years.

Nowhere has that tradition survived more than in Turkey. In Istanbul, in particular, the custom of bathing blended with the grand Roman and then Ottoman tradition of great people building public works and wudu, the Islamic practice of washing before prayer, created marvelous universal baths that were not only

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