There are very few Türkiye baths in the city center of Izmir. The number of these baths varies between 10 and 15 and for most of them the construction date is not clear. These baths, which were built between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries, were repaired at different times and completely lost their original features. As in the Quarantine Bath in İzmir Karataş, the plans of some of the baths were changed and their functions were transformed in this way.
Since the other baths in İzmir city center are also used for different purposes, they have lost their characteristics completely. For example, Kıllıoğlu Hacı İbrahim Hamam in Basmane was used as a coal storehouse. Yeşildirek Bath in Kemeraltı was transformed into a bazaar. Salepçioğlu Bath was used as a printing house for many years. The Çivici Bath on Kestelli Street is private property.
Historical Karataş Hoşgör Hamam
360 Sokak, No: 10
Tel: +90 232 425 20 93 – 484 03 26
Karataş Hamam is located in the city center and since its inscription could not survive to the present day, the date of construction could not be determined. XVIII. century is thought to be the date of construction. Due to the changes made in the hamam after the construction, the building is mostly different than its original style. The bath is made of cut stone and consists of undressing, warm-up and hot sections. The undressing and warm-up sections are rectangular and covered with pendentive domes, and the remaining areas are covered with vaults. The hot section is largely covered by a pendentive dome. There is a mirror vaulted iwan to the east of the two private rooms of hot section and there is the central stone (göbek taşı) underneath the dome. A rectangular furnace was added to the outside of the hot section.
Karantina Hamam
181 Sokak, No: 7
Tel: +90 232 231 57 11
There are two assumptions for the construction date of this Turkish bath, which is located in the Karantina district and actively operating today. According to the first assumption, the hamam was built together with a building which is used as a highschool today and it was completed in 1881. The second assumption is that it was built together with the Quarantine Building, which was built in 1844 in order to prevent epidemics coming from the ferries.
Tevfikpaşa Hamam
Anafartalar Cad., No. 501
Tel: +90 232 425 14 74
There is no inscription and no documents stating the construction date of this bath which is located on Anafartalar Street in İzmir Basmane district. Looking at its style, the building is thought to belong to the eighteenth century.
The bath, which is made of rubble stone and brick, has a different plan. The undressing area is square and is a wooden covered section above the basement floor. It is understood from the traces that the warm-up section, which has been mostly destroyed, was covered with mirror vaults. In addition, a space with a trapezoidal plan can also be seen.
The hot section has square plan and covered with a pendentive dome. Two private room cells are placed into the hot-section.
Şark Hamam (Saçmacı Hamam)
816 Sokak, No: 2
Tel:425 37 85
There is no information indicating the construction date of this bath which is located in İzmir İkiçeşmelik. However, in XIX.-XX. Centuries it has undergone major changes and became different than its original structure.
The bath, which is made of rubble stone and brick, is composed of undressing, warm-up and hot sections. The undressing section has two floors and it also has shops which are placed on the lower floor. It is covered with an oval dome with octagonal pulley which is carried by four wooden poles. Internally it is covered with wooden ceiling. The warm-up section consists of two separate parts. These are covered with dome and mirror vault. The hot section is square and covered with a pendentive dome. There is the main stone (göbek taşı) inside the hot section and the private room part behind it.
Lüks Hamam (Kadı Hamam)
Anafartalar Cad.,No: 660
Tel: +90 232 484 84 30
Although the construction date of this bath, which is located on the Anafartalar Street in Izmir, is unknown, it is thought to be built in XVII.-XVIII. centuries due to its architectural style.
This bath, which is made of cut stone, has a double bath plan and consists of undressing, warm-up and hot sections. The men's and women's sections of the bath have the same plans. The undressing section and the warm-up section have identical rectangular plans close to a square and are covered with vaults. The hot section is rectangular and covered with a dome. A double private room was added into it.
The hamam is still in good condition.
İstanköy Hamam
There is no inscription and document indicating the construction date of this bath which is located in Uğur Neighborhood, 916 Street, number 6, behind the Salepçioğlu Mosque.
The bath, which is made of cut stone, consists of undressing, warm-up and hot sections. The dressing part has a square plan and is covered with a wooden ceiling. Later on, this section was extended to the east and west, and a cloistered vault was added to its middle part beside the domes. Thus, warm-up section was created, and toilets were added to the west of it.
The hot section was covered with a dome supported by four abuttals to the north of the warm-up section, and its sides were covered with cloistered vaults and its corners with small domes.
Çukur Hamam
841 Sokak, No: 3
Tel: +90 232 483 58 97
There is no inscription about the construction date of this hamam which is located in İzmir İkiçeşmelik. Due to its architectural style, it is thought to have been built in the seventeenth-eighteenth centuries.
The bath, which is made of cut stone, rubble stone and brick, consists of undressing, warm-up and hot sections. The undressing part has a rectangular plan close to a square and is covered with a wooden dome. Warm-up section has a square plan and is covered with a cross vault. The hot section has a rectangular plan and is covered with a cloistered vault.
Basmane Hamam
Anafartalar Cad. No: 890
Tel: +90 232 425 50 78
Although the construction date of this bath, which is located on the Anafartalar Street in Izmir, is unknown, it is thought to be built in XVIII.-XIX. centuries due to its architectural style.
The bath, which is made of cut stone and brick, consists of undressing, warm-up and hot sections. The undressing section is square and covered with a pendentive dome. The remaining sections are covered with vaults. The warm-up section mirror is covered with vault and consists of three parts. The hot section is square and covered with a pendentive dome.
The bath is still in good condition.
Kıllıoğlu Hacı İbrahim Foundation Hamam
The Türkiye bath is located in the city center of Izmir at the address of Tilkilik, Anafartalar Caddesi, number 772. Since this bath does not have an inscription, it is not known when and by whom it was built.
The bath is thought to have a plan in classical Ottoman architecture and is made of rubble stone and brick. There is no private room part in the bath which consists of cold, warm-up and hot sections. The cold section has square plan and covered with an octagonal dome. This bath, which was abandoned for many years, was used as a coal storehouse until 1965 and then it was demolished. Only the ‘hot’ section and ruins of some walls have survived to the present day.
Çivici Hamam
Kestelli Cad.,No: 93
Tel: +90 232 445 12 29
Built in the late 16th century, this hamam is a historical building where Ottoman architecture is still preserved. The bathing place was built on a single dome and the warm-up section was built using three small domes. It was restored by Hüseyin Esen in 1995 with the order of Selahattin İşbilir and took its recent shape. Among hamams, it has the highest dome in Izmir.
Yeşildirek Hamam
The bath which is located at the address Anafartalar Street, Güzelyurt Neighbourhood no 288 in Konak District was built by Kara Mustafa Paşa of Merzifon in the seventeenth century. When it was built, it was heated with wood fire and then after 1940 when it was started to be heated with coal, the heating channels could not resist this high temperature and exploded. The building was once used as an inn, warehouse, workshop and store. In 1963 the bath was transformed into an indoor bazaar (Yeşildirek Bazaar) with 46 shops.
Namazgah Hamam
816 Sokak, No: 30
Tel: +90 232 441 07 94
The construction date of this bath, which is located in Namazgâh area near Agora in İzmir, could not be determined exactly. With the repairs made at different times, it has become substantially different from its original form.
The bath, which is made of cut stone and brick, has a double bath plan consisting of undressing, warm-up and hot sections. Both sections are identical. The sections are covered with domes and vaults.
Karşıyaka (Alibey) Hamam
1671 Sokak, No : 88
Tel: +90 232 369 07 70
This bathhouse which is located in Karşıyaka district of İzmir has a different plan due to its location and its land. There is no inscription indicating the date of construction. Due to its architectural structure it is thought to be built in the early nineteenth century.
The bath is made of cut stone, rubble stone and brick and it has a trapezoid plan due to its location. It consists of undressing, warm-up and hot sections. The undressing section has a trapezoid rectangular shape and it was rebuilt in XX. century. Warming-up section consists of two parts, and it is covered with domes and flat vaults.
The hot section is to the east of the warm-up section and is covered with a pendentive dome. To the south part of the hot section a private room is added in two parts. These are also covered with a dome.
Tabaklar Hamam (Bergama)
Since the inscription of this bath, which is located in the Bergama district of İzmir opposite the Ulu Mosque, could not survive to the present day, the construction date could not be determined. If thought together with the Ulu Mosque and due to the architectural style of the bath it is thought to have been built in XIV-XV. centruies. The bath was damaged during the flood in 1842 and was not used thereafter.
It was built in the classical Ottoman architectural plan and shows an irregular masonry of rough chipped stone and brick. The bath consists of undressing, warm-up and hot sections. The cold section of the bath, which has a rectangular plan close to a square, is covered with a vault and the hot section is covered with a dome with a pulley. The dome is placed on the main walls with its Turkish triangles and stalactites. Decorations similar to the fifteenth century adornments were found in the hamam. The hamam is in ruins now.