Subaşı Baths

Konya, Konya, Turkey

Location: Konya, Konya, Turkey
Water type: thermal
Temperature: 40 °C
pH: 7.3

Water profile

Thermicity

Sedative

40 °C

LowHigh

Relaxing — deep, immediate muscle release.

Mineralisation

Balancing

LowHigh

Rich in trace elements — gentle on the skin.

Buoyancy

Standard buoyancy

LowHigh

Soft water — natural, classic buoyancy.

BicarbonatesCalcium

The Subaşı Baths are a historic Ottoman hammam in Selçuklu District of Konya Province in central Anatolia, in the metropolitan area of a city revered throughout the Islamic world as the home of Jalal al-Din Rumi, whose Mevlevi Sufi order of Whirling Dervishes made Konya a place of pilgrimage and spiritual significance. Konya was the capital of the Sultanate of Rum and one of the greatest Seljuk cities of medieval Anatolia, and its bathing tradition reflects the sophisticated urban culture that made this central Anatolian city a centre of art, mysticism, and civic refinement for centuries. The Subaşı Baths served the community of Selçuklu, a district whose very name honours the Seljuk dynasty that built the civilisation from which Ottoman culture inherited so much of its character and institutions.

Insider tip — Konya is the spiritual heart of Turkey — the city where the 13th-century mystic poet Rumi (Mevlana) founded the Mevlevi order of whirling dervishes, whose ecstatic spinning dance is one of the Islamic world's most sublime spiritual expressions. The Subaşı Baths serve a city that was the capital of the Seljuk Sultanate of Rum, where the hammam tradition was bound up with the Sufi culture of purification and the extraordinary spiritual heritage that draws pilgrims to Rumi's turquoise-domed shrine.

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