#suleiman the magnificent

Haseki Hürrem Sultan Hammam is located between Hagia Sophia and the Blue Mosque. It was built on the order of Hürrem Sultan, the wife of Süleyman the Magnificent, by Architect Sinan in 1556 as a charitable work. The facade is composed in classical Ottoman style. The interior comprises double baths and is in total 75 meters long. Unusually the female and male baths were located on the same axis, and this is one of the first examples of such a layout in Turkish hammam architecture. The building functioned as a bath until 1910, after which it was closed for a period and then used as a warehouse. Restored in 1957-1958, the building was converted into a carpet store. Its final renovation begun in 2008 and the building opened as a bath house again in 2011.