Friday, July 24, 2009

Bathing Ottoman style in Istanbul

"Bathing Ottoman style in Istanbul

John Scott and Berrin Torolsan

The Cinili Hammam

For Charles White, writing in the early 1840s, the “Tchinelly Hammam” was “one of the neatest and most picturesque in the city”. Zeyrek, close to the imperial Fatih Mosque and the Valencian Aqueduct, was a fashionable quarter with handsome wooden houses and views to the Golden Horn."

More:Bathing Ottoman style in Istanbul - The National Newspaper