Bahremşah 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 Bahremşah Baths are a historic bath complex in Divriği District of Sivas Province in eastern Anatolia, named after Bahramshah, a royal name associated with the Mengujekid dynasty that ruled Divriği and built its extraordinary UNESCO-listed Great Mosque and Hospital in the early 13th century. Divriği's position on the upper Euphrates watershed, in a remote valley of the anti-Taurus mountains, placed it at the intersection of Anatolian Seljuk, Mengujekid, Ilkhanid, and eventually Ottoman spheres of influence, and the hammam tradition here reflects the sophisticated bathing culture inherited from all these overlapping civilisations. The baths stand as a complement to Divriği's celebrated sacred architecture, providing the communal and hygienic counterpart to the mosque and the hospital in the town's essential civic ensemble.