Al Salsila, Damascus, Syria
< Hammams: Les bains magiciens / Pascal Meunier et Samara Boustani avec des textes de Maud Tyckaert. — Paris : Dakota, 2000
In the hot rooms of an Islamic hammam, the hot air combines with the water in the washing bowl to create vapour.
In the Victorian Turkish bath an attempt was made to separate the washing facilities from the hot rooms in order to keep the hot air as dry as possible.
Entry revised, 21 March 2010
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Early Turkish baths for animals
The Victorian Turkish Bath Movement. Part 2: Urquhart, Barter, and St Ann's
The Turkish bath as a facility
Heritaging the Victorian Turkish bath: creating a saleable asset
Victorian Turkish Baths: their origin, development, and gradual decline
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