Although there is no inscription indicating when the bathhouse was built, there are foundation deeds and religious court records indicating that it was built by Lala Mustafa Pasha. The date of its foundation deed (Hijri 985) is 1577, and it must have been built between 1563-1577, when Lala Mustafa Pasha was the Beylerbey of Aleppo and Damascus. The first element of the complexes built is considered to be the baths and the foundation deeds were arranged after the work was completed, accordingly, the Pasha Bath must have been built in 1564/1565. The bathhouse, together with the inn to the east, the Susamhane, the Bedesten (Covered Bedesten) that no longer exists and the Mir-i Miran masjid, was a complex (Lala Mustafa Pasha Complex). Reflecting the bathhouse architecture of the Ottoman Period, the work was built sunken into the ground, well below the ground level, like almost all Antep baths. The bathhouse, which is entered by descending nine steps from the pointed arched door opening to the street, It consists of a cold room, a warm room, a hot room, a water tank and a furnace. The cold room, which is the first entrance to the bath, has a square plan and is covered with a dome with a lighting lantern in the middle. A corridor leads from the cold room to the warm room, which is a large space. The warm room is a large space with iwans on both sides of a square-planned center. The hot room, which is entered directly from the warm room, consists of eight iwans and two halvets arranged around the octagonal navel stone in the middle of the central space. The water tank and the furnace are located after the hot room.

Source: Gaziantep Metropolitan Municipality – Hamam Museum

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