Çankırı Tarihi Karataş Hamamı

A place full of history

It cannot be renovated for years, even if you go

Historical stone bath, which we have not yet brought to tourism ...

It is one of the rare works of our country that the years shedding light from past to present cannot be worn. In recent years, it has been restored in accordance with its original and it has been tried to regain cultural tourism. however, even though it has not been officially opened yet, it shows itself in the heart of Çankırı with all its magnificence and majesty.

The bath in the southwest of Alibey Mosque XVII. It was built during the reign of Çankırı Mütesellimi Ali Bey (1609). The building is a double bathhouse that runs perpendicular to the south-north axis. There is a men's section in the west and a women's section in the east. The dressing rooms in both baths lost their originality and were completely made of reinforced concrete. From these changing dressing areas, narrow but high openings lead to rectangular-planned warm rooms. The door openings have a pointed to round arch. The middle parts of the warm sections are covered with a dome. The transition to the Kebab is provided by pendants. The eastern and western sections of the warmths are covered with half-domes with tromp in the men's section, while the women's section is covered with a barrel vault resembling a thick arch. Because the warmth and warmth sections of the women's section are smaller than the men's section. There are octagonal skylights in the middle of the domes and round skylights around this octagon. In addition, there are other skylights forming a cluster of three, octagonal two at the bottom and a round one at the top, on each facade at the bottom. The warmth passes through a round-arched door to the temperature section. Temperatures have four iwans and four halves. The middle spaces and private rooms are covered with domes, and the iwans with barrel vaults. The private rooms are entered from the middle room through pointed arched openings. An octagonal skylight was opened in the middle of the domes covering both the middle space and the halves. The navel stones are not original and are made of marble. A round arched window is opened to the hot water reservoir in the north from the northeast private room of the hot room of the men's section. This private room is used as a sauna. From the northern iwans of the men's and women's sections, a small round hole was made in the hot water reservoir. The barrel-vaulted hot water tank and the furnace extend along the north facade of both sections. In the Karataş Bath, which is an example of the Ottoman period cross-like double baths, cut stone was used as a building material in the floor, rubble stone in the body walls and brick in the domes.