Mudurnu Yıldirim Bayezid Hamamı

It is located in Mudurnu District, Büyükcami Neighborhood, block 44, parcel 1. It is located opposite Yıldırım Bayezit Mosque. According to the inscription above the entrance door of the men's section and the summary of the waqf deed, it was commissioned by Yıldırım Beyazid to Ömer bin İbrahim in H. 784 (M. 1382). In the bath, built in the style of a double bath, the men's changing room is on the east and the women's is on the west. In the whole structure, the walls are rubble stone; only the eaves moldings are of cut stone and pointing has been made between the stones. On the entrance façade, the walls are very thick, and between these thick walls the entrance is in the form of a passage, and the area above the door is decorated with muqarnas. The dome, rising over the load-bearing walls built on a square plan, first cylindrical and then made octagonal, is concealed within a drum and covered with a low pyramid-shaped tiled roof. On the east and west sides of the hot section there are large iwans.

In the private cell opening to the hot section of the men's section, there are muqarnas supports starting from the middle of the four sides. The women's changing room has a nearly square rectangular plan and a wooden ceiling. The hot section is covered in the middle with a dome, and on the sides there are two iwans and special private cells. With the restoration carried out in recent times, the wall stones other than the monumental portal have largely been changed. It continues to function as a bath.

Source: Bolu Culture and Tourism Guide, 2010, Bolu Governorship Provincial Directorate of Culture and Tourism, Bolu

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