This is a ruin, not a working bath: a double bath at İznik whose date and founder are not known for certain, and it now stands under a steel roof put up to protect it from the weather. Some argue it is Seljuk work, though it is more widely accepted as an Ottoman building of the fourteenth century. Its architecture gives it a distinguished place in the history of Turkish building.
What survives runs north to south: four domed spaces set in pairs along parallel axes, and six rectangular spaces on the east-west axis of which only the foundations remain. The outer walls are plain and unbroken, built irregularly of rubble, brick and mortar, with regular courses of brick only on the west front; the roofing and the muqarnas are brick. It is near the İstanbul gate and is reached from Atatürk Caddesi.
Getting there
- Access
- The bath is near the İstanbul Gate and is reached from Atatürk Caddesi.
When to go
- Climate
- Across Bursa as a whole, monthly mean temperatures run from 5.4 °C in January to 24.6 °C in July; the mean stays between 15 and 25 °C in May, June, July, August, September and October; rainfall is heaviest in December (99 mm) and lightest in August (18 mm). Long-term means for 1927-2025 from the Turkish State Meteorological Service (MGM).
