The Avşar bath at Afsar village in the Gelendost district of Isparta is a masonry single bath on level ground. Of the rectangular changing room only the foundations survived, and the room has recently been rebuilt on those old foundations with local means, roofed with a concrete slab; four changing cubicles of concrete block stand along its north side.
An arched door on the east front of the changing room leads into the warm room, a long rectangle running east to west under a barrel vault. From the south of the changing room another arched door leads into the hot room, which consists of a large transverse rectangular section and two square private chambers. The large section is domed at the centre with barrel vaults on either side. The southeast corner of the hot room has recently been partitioned off as a shaving room.
Getting there
- Access
- In Afşar village, Gelendost.
When to go
- Climate
- Across Isparta as a whole, monthly mean temperatures run from 1.9 °C in January to 23.5 °C in August; the mean stays between 15 and 25 °C in May, June, July, August and September; rainfall is heaviest in December (86 mm) and lightest in August (14 mm). Long-term means for 1929-2025 from the Turkish State Meteorological Service (MGM).
