Publication Date
During the reign of Sultan Murad I (reigned 761-791 / 1360-1389); Al-Taddīd District: 917 / 1511 (reign of Sultan Bayezid II, ruled 886-918 / 1481-1512)
Type
Other
Language
Undetermined
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
No
Library
Museum With No Frontiers
Record ID
monument;ISL;tr;Mon01;17;ar
Library Location
Bursa, Türkiye
Date
During the reign of Sultan Murad I (reigned 761-791 / 1360-1389); Al-Taddīd District: 917 / 1511 (reign of Sultan Bayezid II, ruled 886-918 / 1481-1512)
Notes
According to Turkish architecture, baths built near warm springs are called spas. This huge ancient spa is one of these buildings. It is referred to in some media as the Pear Hotel. The ancient spa consists of a switching area known as a tepidarium, or lukewarm water chamber, and a caldarium, or hot water chamber. Because the building was built on a hillside, a basement was built under the changing rooms. Although the purpose is not known From behind the basement precisely, some researchers assume that it may have been a stable for the animals of the resort’s visitors, and it was built by order of Sultan Bayezid II. The switching area is a wide area covered by two and a half domes, and there is a water fountain in the middle of it, which provides a great deal of light through many windows in the walls. As for the warm water chamber, it is square in shape and covered by a dome, and there are two rectangular rooms on either side of it. While the hot water chamber, with a square shape of Outside, it is devoid of the private rooms found in public baths. In the middle there is a domed canopy supported by eight columns, beneath which lies a circular pool with a diameter of 7 metres, into which healing water is poured from a pipe protruding from a lion’s head fixed in the wall opposite the entrance. As for the hot water room, there are in its four corners semicircular alcoves for ablution, instead of private rooms. The outer walls of the building were built of courses of stone and brick, but most of the building materials in the building were brought from Previous buildings were reused in this building. Historian J. von Hammer-Burkstuhl wrote that the waters of the old spa were good for skin diseases, but they were so hot that you could boil eggs in the source. Archival documents indicate that the roof of the old spa was covered with lead sheets in AH 942 / AD 1535-36, which were torn off and replaced by a red tiled roof in AD 1021 / AD 1612.
Sample Text
“An ancient mineral water resort” within Discover Islamic Art. Museum Without Borders, 2026. 2026. https://islamicart.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=monument;ISL;tr;Mon01;17;ar
