İmamoğlu Baths
- Location
- Divriği, Sivas, Turquie, Turkey
- Water type
- thermal
- pH
- 7.3
Water profile
Rich in trace elements — gentle on the skin.
Soft water — natural, classic buoyancy.
The İmamoğlu Baths are a historic Ottoman hammam in Divriği District of Sivas Province in the remote highlands of eastern Anatolia, a town world-famous for its UNESCO World Heritage Great Mosque and Hospital (Ulu Cami ve Darüşşifa), built in 1228-1229 and considered one of the supreme achievements of Anatolian stone-carving artistry. Divriği's remarkably elaborate medieval monuments, constructed by the Mengujekid dynasty, reflect the cultural ambition of Anatolian principalities that sustained sophisticated court traditions far from the major centres of Islamic civilisation, and the hammam served the ordinary daily needs of a community in the shadow of these extraordinary buildings. Set in a deep valley of the upper Euphrates watershed, the baths stand as a modest but essential counterpart to Divriği's monumental sacred architecture.