Mevlana Baths

Mevlana Baths is a historic Turkish hammam honoring the memory of Mevlana Celaleddin Rumi — the thirteenth-century Persian-language Sufi poet and mystic who lived and died in Konya, where his mausoleum has been one of the most important pilgrimage sites in the Islamic world since his death in 1273 and whose Masnavi (Mathnawi) is considered one of the supreme masterpieces of world mystical literature. Rumi's tomb in Konya draws pilgrims from across the Islamic world, and hammams named after Mevlana in the Konya region and beyond honor the spiritual authority of a figure whose teaching of love, tolerance, and mystical union with the divine transcended sectarian Islam to become a universally admired spiritual heritage. Mevlana Baths provides the classical Turkish bathing experience of steam, kese exfoliation, and foam massage in a facility whose name invokes the Sufi concept of purification — the cleansing of the body as a reflection of the soul's aspiration toward spiritual purity in the tradition of the great mystic who taught that the heart's desire for the divine was like water's desire to return to the sea.