Paşa Baths (Çorum)

The Paşa Baths in Çorum in north-central Turkey, also known as the Tacettin Paşa Hamamı, are a historic Ottoman hammam built in 1431 by Taceddin İbrahim Paşa bin Hacı Bey, making them one of the oldest surviving Ottoman baths in the Anatolian Black Sea hinterland. The 15th-century construction features the classic Ottoman hammam sequence of soğukluk (cooling room), ılıklık (warm room), and sıcaklık (hot room), expressed in the restrained stone architecture of the early Ottoman period before the full flowering of imperial grandeur. For nearly six centuries these baths served Çorum's residents as a central institution of weekly hygiene and communal social life.