Beyobası Baths

The Beyobası Baths are a historic Ottoman hammam with naturally sulphurous mineral water in Pazar District of Tokat Province in northern Anatolia, in the Kelkit River valley of the Pontic mountains that separate the Anatolian plateau from the Black Sea coast. The sulphurous thermal springs of the Pazar area reflect the geological activity of the North Anatolian Fault zone, which produces mineral-rich waters across a broad band of northern Anatolia from the Marmara region to the eastern Black Sea mountains. These sulphurous baths have long been valued within a thermal tradition reaching back to antiquity, giving the Beyobası facility a dual character as both a social and hygienic hammam and a thermal spring associated with well-being in this mountainous region.