Amasya - Türkiye Seyahat Acentaları Birliği

döndüklerinde fikri canlandırdılar. Yenihamamlar, Fransa ve İngiltere’de birdenpopüler oluverdi. 1500’lerden itibaren de“genel hamamlar” birer birer kapatılmayabaşlandı.Türk hamamları16. yüzyılda Avrupa’da hamamlar kapatılır,dahası “sıcak suyun ahlakı bozduğu” önesürülürken, Osmanlı’da banyonun/hamamınaltın çağı yaşanıyordu.Osmanlı kentleri görkemli hamamlara sahipti.Fethedilen her ülkede de, hamam yapılmasınaöncelik veriliyordu. Hele İstanbul… “TürkHamamı” deyişini ve bu yolda birşöhreti dünyayayayacak ölçüdehamamkültürüyaratmıştı.Öyle ki,Evliya Çelebi17. yüzyıldaİstanbul’da302 çarşıhamamı,14.536 sarayve konak hamamıolduğundan bahseder.Sonrasındaki yüzyıllarda kaleme alınan pekçok eserde de, o hamamlardaki sosyal yaşamanlatılır. Minyatürler, tablolar “içeridengörüntüler” aktarır.says that cleaning is a “farz” (God’s command). Asa consequence, baths were one of most significantstops in daily life. Furthermore, it was believed thatbaths increase fertility. Gradually, private washingsessions for only women started to appear. TheChristians saw Muslims’ baths during the crusades.So, they met with the cleaning approach “onceagain.” After returning to their homes, they revivedthe concept. New baths suddenly became popular inFrance and England. Consequently, from the 1500son, these general purpose baths started to be closedone by one.Turkish Hamams (Public Baths)As baths were being closed in the 16 th century inEurope on the grounds that they undermined themorals of the people, the golden age of baths wasbeing experienced in the Ottoman Empire.Ottoman cities had spectacular baths. It was apriority to build a bath in each conquered country.Above all, İstanbul coined the phrase “Turkish Bath,”and a bath culture whose fame spread to the wholeworld.Evliya Çelebi states that there were 302 public bathsand 14536 court and mansion baths in the 17 thcentury in İstanbul.Social lives in those baths are told in the works thatwere penned in the following centuries. Miniaturesand portraits reflect the “inside images.”TÜRSAB DERGİ | AĞUSTOS 2013 55