Baki Baths

The Baki Baths are a historic Ottoman hammam in Bilecik District of Bilecik Province in the heartland of the early Ottoman beylik that emerged at the end of the 13th century under Osman Gazi to eventually become one of history's most enduring empires. Bilecik Province carries deep significance in Ottoman foundational history as the region where the Ottoman state first developed its institutions, and its hammams reflect the very earliest phase of the Ottoman bathing tradition in the lands where the empire's character was formed. The baths served a community in a region where every Ottoman monument — from humble hammams to mosques and tombs — carries the historical weight of a place that gave birth to a civilisation spanning three continents.