While historians cannot pin down exactly when people began bathing indoors, it is known that the Ottoman Empire fell heir to the Roman Bath tradition, and the first “Turkish bath” was built in ...

After 133 years, New York’s iconic Russian and Turkish baths in the East Village are still a part of city lore. Located at the bottom of a landmark tenement, ...

Just got out of the Russian Turkish baths and what can I say feeling refreshed overjoyed with thankfulness gratitude — Nicken Carr (@NotNicklas) January 22, 2025 why are ppl going to the Russian ...

A man takes a bath in a chamber with basin of Turkish bath inside the Haseki Hurrem Sultan Hamam, in Istanbul, Turkey, on Jan. 17, 2017. (Photo by Arif Hudaverdi Yaman/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images ...

Comment on merits of Turkish bath about to be established in NYC. This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996.