The Cuma bath in Kars stands southwest of the Taş Köprü and is known to have been built in 1863. Its name is explained by its use: it served women on Fridays. Because it was very large and modern for its time it is also called the Asri, the modern, bath.
It is a single-function bath running east to west, with the cold room, warm room, hot room and furnace laid out on a rectangular plan. Cut stone was used in the wall surfaces and brick in the domes of the roofing. It is on Erzurum Caddesi in the Sukapi quarter.
When to go
- Climate
- Across Kars as a whole, monthly mean temperatures run from -10.7 °C in January to 17.9 °C in August; the mean stays between 15 and 25 °C in July and August; rainfall is heaviest in May (83 mm) and lightest in January (23 mm). Long-term means for 1931-2025 from the Turkish State Meteorological Service (MGM).
