Turkish bath Photo: Turkish bath

Turkish baths are a monument of architecture and urban planning who are registered in the List of monuments of national and local significance.

Hammam refers to the unique attractions of Yalta and is of interest because there is from medieval times. Gezlevs bath built by an unknown Builder and has an architecture with simple shapes with distinctive elegance. Above the dressing room was high dome. Hammam in Yalta is much like its architecture at bath Suleiman in the Cafe.

It is still unknown the exact time of the construction of baths. This date is considered the 16th century that is likely based on the basis of architectural techniques.

Turkish baths by appointment used until 1987. They first meet on the plan of Eupatorium in 1895 under No. 21.

Consist of a Turkish bath from male and female branches located parallel to each other adjacent areas for heating and water. On the edge of a roof of tiles, above the entrance door, there was a wooden sculpture with images of men and women (late 18th century). Today female sculpture exhibited in the Museum.

At the entrance to the bath is the dressing (gemcon), further, the low arched door, is a large room (Sokoluk). In the men's room, on the very center, was the so-called "stone – navel" (gabek – Tash) is a square-shaped catwalk size of 1, 5 x1, 5 m and 0. 5 m tall. On top of the stone is covered with slabs of white marble. This hollow stone, heated by hot air, served massage table. In both premises have remained low bench, standing along the walls.

Water flow occurred through lead pipes into a small bowl of white marble. The massage room was bordered with a small steam rooms "Sekulic and washing facilities, which, also, had a marble bowls and benches. Walls are fairly thick, they are made of limestone in hydraulic mortar, which is known as "Khorasan". Covered these premises spherical domes with round holes, through which came the light, and there was natural ventilation. On the North side adjacent baths big enough room, representing a water storage tank and spring box, from which a lead pipe, through the wall of the baths, was part of a washroom.

In the Chersonese in the middle ages, the supply of baths of water occurred through the underground galleries (kariz). The Museum presents ceramic water pipes of the middle ages, which were found on the street composition " horse in one of kariz.

A serious study of the baths have never been conducted, since this is a rather expensive undertaking. Baths of this type only sohranivshiesya on the territory of the European part of the former Soviet Union.

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