woda: Victorian Turkish baths

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The Victorian Turkish bath is a type of bath in which the bather sweats freely in hot dry air, is then usually washed and massaged (together known as shampooing), and has a cold wash or shower. It can also mean, especially when used in the plural, an establishment where such a bath is available. Hot-air baths of the same type, built after Queen Victoria's reign (1837–1901), are known as Victorian-style Turkish baths, and are also covered in this article. The Victorian Turkish bath became popular during the latter third of the queen's reign. It retained this popularity during the Edwardian years (1901–1914), first as a therapy and a means of personal cleansing, and then as a place for relaxa…

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A hammam (Arabic: حمّام, romanized: ḥammām), also often called a Turkish bath by Westerners, is a type of steam bath or a place of public bathing associated with the Islamic world. It is a prominent feature in the culture of the Muslim world and was inherited from the model of the Roman thermae. Muslim bathhouses or hammams were historically found across the Middle East, North Africa, al-Andalus (Islamic Iberia, i.e. Spain and Portugal), Central Asia, the Indian subcontinent, and in Southeastern Europe (notably Balkans and Hungary) under Ottoman rule. In Islamic cultures the significance of the hammam was both religious and civic: it provided for the needs of ritual ablutions but also provi…

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The Victorian Turkish baths, Dublin, Lincoln Place, were the first purpose-built Victorian Turkish baths in the Irish capital, opening on 2 February 1860. In 1867 the company leased the baths to Richard Bushe, a magistrate who lived on the premises. By 1881 he had sold them to the hoteliers Millar & Jury who already owned Turkish baths at 127 Stephen's Green West, adjacent to their hotel. In June 1900 the baths were unsuccessfully offered at auction as a going concern. The building was then used for offices and other commercial activities before being demolished in 1970.

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Royal Baths, Harrogate is a Grade II listed building in Harrogate, England, which housed a hydrotherapy centre established by the Corporation of Harrogate in 1897 as part of its vision to make Harrogate the Nation's Spa Town. The Royal Baths continued in full operation through to 1969, winding down fairly rapidly after losing a National Health Service contract in that year. In contemporary times its Victorian Turkish baths continue to be operated, the rest of the building being used as a restaurant and tourism information centre.

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The Victorian Turkish baths in Parliament Street, Harrogate, England, opened in 1897 as part of the Royal Baths, and with their entrance originally in Crescent Road. The baths replaced those which had been added to the "Montpelier Gardens Baths" some time in the late 1870s. The new Turkish baths are still open, but the remaining parts of the Royal Baths are now used for other purposes. After major refurbishment at the beginning of the twenty-first-century, these baths are generally considered to be the most historically complete fully operational Victorian Turkish baths still in use.

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Victorian Turkish baths have existed in Swindon, England since 1868 and persist as the longest surviving Victorian Turkish baths establishment, not only in the British Isles, but also in the world. In 1860, the Great Western Railway Company (GWR) approved the provision of Turkish baths for its workers and their families by its Medical Fund Society (MFS), provided the society paid for them. This condition delayed the implementation of the fund's proposal and it was not until 1 October 1868 that its first Turkish baths opened in Taunton Street. The current Turkish baths opened on 10 December 1906 in the fund's new Faringdon Road Baths and Dispensary building, with its own entrance in Milton S…