Jolan Hammam

Hamadan, Hamadan, Iran

Location: Hamadan, Hamadan, Iran
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 Jolan Hammam is a historic public bath in Hamadan, one of Iran's most ancient cities situated in the western Zagros Mountains and widely regarded as a successor to the Median capital of Ecbatana, a city of over three thousand years of continuous habitation. Listed on the Iranian national heritage register, the hammam served a community whose city encompasses the tomb of Avicenna, the Shrine of Esther and Mordecai, and remarkable Achaemenid rock reliefs, making Hamadan one of the most historically layered urban environments in the entire Middle East. The Jolan Hammam forms part of the traditional urban fabric that sustained the daily life of this ancient city across many centuries of Islamic civilisation.

Insider tip — Hamadan (ancient Ecbatana) is one of the world's oldest cities — capital of the Median Empire 2,700 years ago, home to the tombs of Esther and Mordecai (sacred to Jewish pilgrims) and the Avicenna Mausoleum. The Jolan Hammam in Hamadan preserves the bathing culture of a city whose documented history spans three millennia, where every ruler from the Medes to the Mongols to the Safavids maintained the public bath as an essential civic institution in one of humanity's most continuously inhabited urban sites.

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