The hub of activity surrounding the newly restored 16th-century bathhouse points towards a wider cultural renaissance ...

The restoration of Istanbul's hammams, like the Zeyrek Cinili, revives a rich bathing culture that symbolizes cleanliness and ...

There's taking a bath and then there's bathing, the latter of which can be an artistic ritual. With roots in ancient Rome, ...

Alongside a functioning hammam, it also houses a museum explaining its history and the Ottoman ritual of bathing. "The restoration somehow turned into an archaeological dig" that gave insight into ...