Karataş Hamamı

It will come when all is done

I have no idea because I didn't go

very nice

A good place to take pictures and spend time wandering through historical buildings

You can find very little traces of old. Feel the texture and smell of a classic Turkish bath

Located in Alibey neighborhood, next to Alibey Mosque. Sources indicate that it was built in the 17th century during the reign of Ali Bey. Men's section and women section are two parts. The view and architecture is such a wonderful building. Recently, a major restoration work was carried out in the Ottoman period Karatas Bath. The now closed bath will probably be used in a cultural service. Çankırı Municipality has made such a study and it has taken place in local news about the works to be transformed into a Salt Rehabilitation Center ...

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.

The “Historical Karataş Bath”, which was restored by Çankırı Municipality with relief and restoration projects, was put into service again. The "Historical Karataş Bath", which was closed in the 1980s and abandoned for many years, has returned to its old days as a result of the importance given by İrfan Dinç to returning the historical places to their old texture. The "Historical Karataş Bath", which was owned by Çankırı Municipality, was saved from its abandoned state after the works of the municipality. After the operation tender was made on May 21, 2012, it was delivered to the tenant who won the tender on June 14, 2012. Located in Ali Bey Neighborhood in the Central District of Çankırı province, Karataş Bath is in a structure adjacent to Ali Bey Mosque. Although the date of its construction is not known clearly, it is estimated that it was built on the same date as the mosque due to its structure adjacent to the mosque, and the fact that the bathhouse architecture belongs to the 17th century confirms these predictions. Karataş Hamam, which has a double bath plan in the bath architecture of the Ottoman period, attracts attention with two separate bath sections for women and men. There is a rounded arch in this bath, where cold, warm and warm sections are located, and the cold section is passed through the arch. There is a central dome over the cold section and a half-dome on the sides. In the temperature section, there is a central dome where Turkish triangles are used. On the four corners of the hot room are private private rooms. The plan scheme of the women's section is exactly the same as the men's section, and all domes are seated on octagonal pulleys.