BARONE ASIAN ANTIQUES

Turkish Bath

Etymology

ammm is from the Arabic root mm with a general meaning of "heat" of the concerns that many words the "hot spring", "fever" etc. According to Ibn ammm AIDS has derived from al-amm "the vehemence of the heat of summer" (Lane).

The ammm word simply means "bathroom" or "toilet" in many dialects of vernacular Arabic, as it means the city of spa hot springs or in other dialects.

Architecture

In a modern hamam

The hamam combines the functionality and structural of its predecessors in Anatolia, the Roman baths and Byzantine baths, with the tradition of Central Asia Turkish steam bath, the cleansing ritual and respect for water. Also is known that the Arabs have built many of its own version of the Greek-Roman baths were found after his conquest of Alexandria. However, the Turkish bath has a more improved style and functionality of these structures that emerged as annex buildings of mosques or other reuse of Roman baths.

The hamams in the Ottoman culture started as structural elements serving as annexes to mosques, however quickly became institutions and, finally, the works of Ottoman architect Sinan, into monumental structural complexes, the best example is the "emberlita Hamam in Istanbul, built in 1584.

A hamam typically consists of three interconnected basic rooms similar to its Roman ancestors: the scaklk (or hararet-caldarium) which is the hot room, the warm room (tepidarium) which is the fourth intermediate and soukluk which is the cool room.

A Turkish bath provided a harem.

The scaklk usually has a large dome decorated with small glass windows that create an environment of light, but also contains a marble stone in the center that the customers are in, and niches with fountains in corners. This room is to absorb steam and getting massages bushes. The hot room is used for washing with soap and water and soukluk is to relax, get dressed, take a refreshing drink, sometimes tea, and if possible, nap in private cubicles after the massage. Some of the hamams in Istanbul also contain mikvehs, baths cleansing rituals for Jewish women. [Citation needed]

The hamam, like its early precursors, Roman baths (at least pre-Christian) is not exclusive men - Hamam complexes usually contain separate rooms for men and women or, alternatively, they are admitted at different times. Being social centers in the Ottoman Empire hamams were plentiful, and were built in almost every Ottoman city. Integrated into everyday life, which were centers of social gatherings, populated by almost all occasions traditional entertainment (eg dancing and food, especially in neighborhoods of women) and ceremonies, such as before weddings, high, holding of newborns, beauty trips etc.

There were some special accessories of which some are still used in modern hamams: as petemal (cloth special silk or cotton to cover the body like a sarong), naln (wooden clogs that would prevent the user from slipping on the damp ground, often decorated with pictures of jewelry silver or mother-of-pearl), Kese (a rough mitt for massage), and sometimes gilded soap boxes, mirrors, henna bowls, perfume bottles and such.

Tellak (Staff)

Tellak

Detail of an illustration of the Hubanname (The Book of loved Beautiful) supposedly homoerotic eighteenth century work. Publication date uncertain. It is said by the Turkish poet Enderuni Fazyl bin Tahir.

Hamam Omerye

The Bowery "Ten Cent Turkish Bath" New York, C. 1884

A bathhouse in the harem.

Traditionally, the masseurs in the baths, tellak in Turkish, which young people helped customers to wash with soap and clean their bodies. He also worked as sex workers. Today we know from the texts left by Ottoman authors, who were, their prices, how many times they could bring their clients to orgasm, and details of their sexual practices (Del Dellkname-i Dilke, eighteenth century work Dervish, Ismail Agha, Ottoman archives, Sleymaniye, Istanbul).

They were recruited from the ranks of the non-Muslim subject nations of the Turkish Empire, as Greeks, Armenians, Jews, Albanians, Bulgarians, Roma and others.

Sometimes the relationship between tellak and his client became intensely personal. It is recorded that in the 18 th century, a Janissary an elite soldier in the Ottoman army, also often of European origin had a tellak for a lover. When he was kidnapped by men of another regiment and given to the use of their commander, a day-long battle between the two regiments of Janissaries was produced, which was carried an end only when the Sultan ordered the tellak hanged.

After the defeat and dismemberment of the Ottoman army in the 20 th century, the role of tellak children was filled by adult attendants scrub and massage.

Operating Examples

Dating back to the French government and located in the heart of Nicosia's old town is Hamam Omerye - a real working example of Cyprus's rich culture and diversity, fight hard, but the sense of freedom and flexibility. The site's history dates back to 14th century, when it stood as an Augustinian church of Santa Maria. Stone, with small domes, placed in chronological order the Franco era and Venetian rule, approximately the same time that the city acquired its Venetian Walls. In 1571, Mustapha Pasha converted the church into a mosque, in the belief that this particular point is where Omar Khalifa rest during his visit to Nicosia. Most of the original building was destroyed by Ottoman artillery, although main entrance door still belongs to the 14 th century Lusignan building, whilst remains of a later Renaissance phase can be seen in the north-eastern the monument. In 2003 the EU [] funded a bi-communal UNDP / UNOPS, "Partnership for Future" in collaboration with Nicosia Municipality and Nicosia Master Plan.

Budapest has four working Turkish bath, all from the 16 th century: Bathrooms and Kirly Rudas Baths are open to the general public while RCZ spa is just be the opening of 2010 and rebuilt Csszr spa and a spa bath is not public.

Introduction of Turkish baths Western Europe

Turkish baths were introduced in the UK by David Urquhart, diplomat and a member of Parliament for Stafford, who for reasons political and personal wants to popularize Turkish culture. In 1850 he wrote The Pillars of Hercules, a book about his travels in Spain and Morocco in 1848, in which he described the system of dry hot air bath that has been in use there, and the Ottoman Empire, very few changes that had been so popular in Roman times.

In 1856, Richard Barter, after reading the book of Urquhart and worked in the construction of a bathroom with him, opened the first modern Turkish bath the United Kingdom in the spa Santa Ana, near Blarney, County Cork, Ireland. The following year, the first swim of its kind to be built in England since the Roman was opened in Manchester, and the idea quickly spread to the north of England. It arrived in London in July 1860 when Roger Evans, a member of a foreign in Urquhart Affairs, opened a Turkish bath in five Bell Street, near Marble Arch

During the next 150 years, more than 600 baths opened its doors in Britain, while similar Turkish baths opened in cities in other parts of the then British Empire. Dr. John Le Gay Brereton, who had medical advice to swimmers in a Turkish bath Foreign Affairs Committee of property in Bradford, went to Sydney, Australia, and opened a Turkish bath there Spring Street in 1859, even before the bath had reached London. Canada had one in 1869 and the first in New Zealand was opened in 1874. Urquhart influence was felt even outside the Empire when, in 1863, Dr. Charles Shepard opened the first Turkish bath in the United States at 63 Columbia Street, Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn.

Today there are only fourteen Turkish baths remain open in the UK, despite the hot air baths still thrive in the form of baths Russian steam and Finnish sauna.

See also

Alhama (Spanish toponym) and Alfama (Portuguese toponym) are derived from the word Arabic.

Bath house

Culture of the Ottoman Empire

Gellért Baths

Omerye Hamam Baths

Harem

Sultan Hamam Haseki Hrrem

Bathrooms Kirly

Kek

Baccha

Onsen and shipped, the Japanese equivalent

Soapland

Steam Shower

Hamam Sleymaniye

Footnotes

^ (Toledo 2003, p. 242) "[Flaubert, January 1850:] Be informed also that all children are bathing Bardash [homosexual]. "

^ (Ghazali 2001, p. 106)

Kemal ^ Mata (1994). Nedim and the poetics of the Ottoman court. University of Indiana. ISBN 1878318098.

^ (Yilmazkaya and Deniz 2005) analyzes the activity casual leave

References

Cosgrove, JJ (2001), Turkish bath design, Books for Business, ISBN 9780894990786, http://books.google.com/books?id=D4cHAAAACAAJ

Gazali, Fehim Mnif (2001), Book of Shehzade, Dnence, ISBN 9789757054177, http://books.google.com/books?id=PY2LAAAAIAAJ

Toledano, Ehud R. (2003), State and Society Mid-nineteenth century Egypt, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 9780521534536, http://books.google.com/books?id=uDQJvkYcTeEC

Yilmazkaya, Orhan; Deniz, Ogurlu (2005), Turkish Baths: A Light on the Tradition and Culture (2 ed.) Itlembik, ISBN 9789756663806, http://books.google.com/books?id=psdNPwAACAAJ

Meunier, Pascal (2009), The Last hammams Cairo's disappearance a bathhouse culture, the American University in Cairo, ISBN 978 977 416 243 5 http://books.google.com/books?id=Rlvp2KmeZMUC&printsec=frontcover&dq = the + last + hammams + Of + Cairo and zN6ES7qiEqO4ywSFie3rCg ei = & hl = en & cd = 1 # v = onepage & q = & f = false

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