History of Galatasaray Hamam
T he Tarihi Galatasaray Hamami was built by Sultan Beyazit II on 1481. The Sultans and Ottoman people all attended bathhouses, or hamams. For the Turkish bath was much more than just a place to cleanse the skin. It was intimately bound up with everyday life, a place where people of every rank and station, young and old, rich and poor, townsman or villager, could come freely. Women as well as men made use of the hamam . Women, whose lives were confined to their homes, families, visits to neighbors and shopping, particularly appreciated the weekly ritual of the bath .